But rather than the damp English moors, we find ourselves joining Beatriz at her new husband’s estate, Hacienda San Isidro, in the baking Mexican countryside shortly after the Mexican War of Independence. The standard gothic elements are all here: a remote estate crumbling into decay, a woman searching for stability in an unstable world, a husband with dark secrets, and, of course, a haunting. Cañas isn’t reinventing the wheel here she’s just making a really, really good wheel. What makes The Hacienda a refreshing change of pace is how straightforward it is: It’s a classic historical gothic novel, impeccably executed. You can hardly walk through a bookstore without tripping over any number of gothic variations, innovations, and pale imitations. There’s just something irresistible about the gothic.
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