In-Laws and Outlaws
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- 7,99 €
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- 7,99 €
Publisher Description
A widow returns to Boston to aid a family plagued by death
Gillian stopped being a Decker when her husband, Stuart, died, and she considers herself lucky to have escaped. The Deckers are ruthless, a family of power-hungry backstabbers who live for profit and sneer at love. Stuart was different, but even he obeyed his older brother Raymond like he was a god. Since she lost her husband, Gillian has tried to forget his family, until a notice in the paper brings it all rushing back. Raymond is dead, and the Decker empire is being washed away by blood.
When Raymond’s widow begs Gillian to come to Boston and help her prove that her husband was murdered, Gillian can’t deny her. Raymond was the fourth Decker to die in the last few months, just a few years after his son was kidnapped and killed. Someone is trying to wipe out the Deckers, and if Gillian doesn’t tread lightly, she may join her husband in death.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Veteran mystery writer Paul ( The Renewable Virgin ) here crafts an absorbing, suitably horrific mystery that centers around the wealthy and influential Decker clan, a politically powerful and much-publicized Boston family experiencing a nightmare: someone is out to get them. When Gillian Clifford Decker, widow of Stuart Decker, reads that Stuart's father, Raymond, has been killed in a fire, she ignores a longstanding estrangement and hurries to Boston to comfort Raymond's widow, Connie. Fearful and indecisive, Connie is sure of a conspiracy: within the last four months, two of her teenage nephews and one niece have died in suspicious and particularly gruesome accidents; four years earlier, Connie and Raymond's son Theo had been kidnapped and murdered in a grisly and sensational case. Gillian, invited to the family enclave on Martha's Vineyard, gradually feels that she is being involved in an elaborate charade. But to what purpose? Astute readers may spot the key to this intense story early enough to find the finale unduly melodramatic--but the tale is nonetheless a potent mix of deception, manipulation and murder.
