Search - Rebecca's Tale

A mystery set around the death of Rebecca, the beautiful and mysterious first wife of Maxim De Winter. Well done characterizations and an excellent sense of place.

"Sequel" to Daphne du Maurier's _Rebecca_, which pretends to continue the tale 20 years after the death of the first Mrs. de Winter.
It's no _Rebecca_, but Sally Beauman had a fun idea for a book.

A breezy read.

From the back: April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter family's estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning.
Colonel Julyan, an old family friend, receives an anonymous package concerning Rebecca. An inquisitive young scholar named Terence Gray appears and stirs up the quiet seaside hamlet with disturbing questions about the past - and with the close ties he soon forges with the Colonel and his eligible daughter, Ellie. Amid bitter gossip and murky intrigue, the trio begins a search for the real Rebecca, and the truth behind her mysterious death.

A companion to Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca"

This book is set in April 1951, 20 years after "Rebecca"