First published 2019
Lucy never clicked with her mother-in-law Diana from their first meeting. Diana commanded respect as a women's rights advocate. She maintained perfect manners and composure. But she kept Lucy at arm's length, clearly disappointed in her choice of daughter-in-law. Lucy felt the same mutual disappointment after ten years of polite distance. Then Diana turns up dead beside a suicide note. She claimed cancer had destroyed her body beyond endurance. The autopsy reveals no cancer in Diana's system. Instead, investigators find poison in her blood. Someone killed the respected activist and staged her death. The investigation forces Lucy's family to confront the toxic dynamics they had hidden for years. Long-buried secrets surface as suspicion falls on those closest to Diana. The fragile relationships that held the family together begin to crack under pressure.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
336 pages · Paperback · Boekerij
Content warnings: domestic-violence, emotional-abuse, toxic-relationship