At fifteen, Mila attended
her father Sean’s fiftieth birthday celebration with his newest wife, her twin
half-sisters Ruby and Coco and several well to do friends. Before the end of
the celebration, Mila, still angry at her father’s defection left early, a new
stepmother was on the horizon and three year old Coco disappeared with life
altering consequences.
Now twelve years later,
most of the same cast of unlikeable, characters return this time to the home of
his fourth wife for Sean’s funeral. Mila is asked to bring Ruby whom she hasn’t
seen since that fateful night all those years ago. It doesn’t take long for the
lies and secrets to surface.
Alex Marwood won an
Edgar for her first novel The Wicked
Girls a book I still think about even though it’s been couple of years
since I read it. She won a Macavity for her second, The Killer Next Door. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a third.
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