Book Review: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

This intriguing reinterpretation of the Italian stay that birthed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein does some truly audacious things with storytelling, as it transports that famed historical episode of 1816 to the 1970s, and further brackets it within the pages of a modern-day domestic thriller. Here in the 21st century, Emily Sheridan is reeling from the seeming…