A Cursed Inheritance by Kate Ellis

What the cover says:
The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in Devon in 1985 shocked the country and passed into local folklore. When a journalist researching the case is murdered twenty years later, DI Wesley Peterson is faced with his most disturbing case yet.
As more people die violently, Wesley needs to discover why a young woman has transformed a dolls house into a miniature reconstruction of the massacre scene. And could the solution to his case lie across the Atlantic Ocean, in the ruined remains of an early English settlement in Virginia USA?

Sadly, this is a book that appears to promise much but actually delivers very little. There are too many characters, too many obvious red herrings and too many threads to the story. In trying to be clever, the book actually just becomes overcomplicated, including an unnecessary and half-hearted attempt at a romance.
It's a shame, as the idea is a good one and could have been thoroughly enjoyable if simplified a little.

5/10