Jamaica Inn

This is a gothic style period thriller about a young woman who is forced to join her aunt and her bullying husband at a remote inn in Cornwall when her mother dies. Mystified by the movements of her uncle and unable to explain why the inn is never open to customers, she eventually learns that she is in the midst of a gang of wreckers, people who lure passing ships onto the rocks and murder their crews in order to loot their cargoes.