During an infrequent visit Catalina begs her to seek out a healer living in the small village near the mansion named Marta Duval and pick up medicine that could save her. Catalina is proclaimed to be suffering from consumption and Noemí is mostly kept away from her cousin. Once there, Noemí is struck by the strange and unwelcoming atmosphere of the Doyles' house and the controlling and patronising attitude of its inhabitants. Suspecting that Virgil may be after Catalina's money, Noemí's father, Leocadio, sends her to the Doyle home, High Place, which is located in the mountains outside of a small town named El Triunfo. She firmly believes that her English husband, Virgil Doyle, intends to poison her. In 1950s Mexico City, beautiful young socialite Noemí Taboada receives a letter from her cousin Catalina, begging for help. The novel landed on multiple bestseller lists and Moreno-Garcia's writing has received comparisons to Daphne du Maurier and Guillermo del Toro. It centers on a young woman investigating her cousin's claims that her husband is trying to murder her. Mexican Gothic is a 2020 gothic horror novel by Mexican Canadian author Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
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