All My Darkest Impulses

A disgraced professor returns to his grandfather's crumbling estate carrying a past he has never fully escaped. When Matthew Merle inherits Merle House, it arrives alongside old grief and unresolved questions, including the fate of a girl who vanished into the surrounding woods long ago. His childhood friend Claire, a psychiatrist rattled by a patient's dangerous turn, finds herself pulled back to the same place. Lisa Unger's first House of Crows installment sets a gothic, pressure-cooker atmosphere where the house itself feels like a character with its own agenda.

Six narrators bring a fractured, haunting quality that fits the story's layered perspectives. James Anderson Foster and Saskia Maarleveld anchor the primary voices, with Frankie Corzo, Jonathan Davis, Adam Verner, and Susannah Jones filling out the ensemble. The effect is a chorus of unease rather than a single confession. At just over eight hours, the pacing is tight, and the multi-voice format reinforces that no one in this story has clean hands.