August, 1939: Hetty Cartwright accompanies a collection of taxidermized animals that have been evacuated from London's natural history museum to the mostly empty Lockwood Manor. When strange things start happening around the manor, Hetty begins to fear for the collection, for her continued employment as caretaker—and for her sanity. A twisty, gothic mystery in a half-abandoned country estate, The Animals at Lockwood Manor captivated me from the first page until the last.