Lady Audley’s Secret

Lady Audley is young, graceful and lovely. Everyone adores her and comments on her sweet nature and her perfect marriage to Sir Michael Audley. Sir Michael’s nephew thinks the same as everyone until he notices the strange and terrifying efect she has on a friend of him. When this friend mysteriously disappears, sir Michael’s nephew is convinced that Lady Audley has something to do with it, and she is not as innocent as she seems, and he sets out to discover the secrets that lie in her past.

This book was a bestseller when it was published in 1862. It shocked readers because it dared to suggest that a woman might be willing to lie, con, and even kill for the life she wanted, under a perfect surface.