The Mother-in-Law
A totally gripping domestic psychological thriller where everyone is hiding something
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'Oh my gosh! I absolutely could not put this book down!... I just loved it! I ran the full gamut of emotions reading this book. It will make you smile, shock you at times...it may even bring a tear to your eye... This one just blew me away!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'This is a heart pounding mystery that I was racing to finish! It's complexities and craziness had me wild-eyed right up until its shocking end. A favourite read for this the year!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
She has never approved of you. But it's when her body is found the secrets really start to come out ...
From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and perfectly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. Even so, Lucy wanted so much to please her new mother-in-law.
That was five years ago. Now, Diana has been found dead, a suicide note near her body. Diana claims that she no longer wanted to live because of a battle with cancer.
But the autopsy finds no cancer. The autopsy does find traces of poison and suffocation.
Everyone in the family is hiding something. But what? And where will the secrets stop?
Everyone is gripped by The Mother-in-Law:
'Fiction at its finest' Liane Moriarty
'I INHALED it... A wholly satisfying domestic mystery, perfect for Liane Moriarty fans, that kept me guessing till the end' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Perfect for fans of Big Little Lies' Library Journal
'Prepare for Gone Girl-level twists' Refinery29
'Wow! What a conclusion!' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I read this book in just two days because I just couldn't put it down' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Twisty and suspenseful' Kelly Rimmer
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hepworth (The Family Next Door) takes readers on a suspenseful ride as a family copes with the suspicious suicide of its matriarch. Lucy has never thought her mother-in-law, Diana Goodwin, liked her since they first met a decade earlier. Chapters in the first person from both Diana's and Lucy's perspectives reveal their deepest feelings and desires, highlighting past events such as the day Lucy married Diana's son, Ollie, and Diana's problems with depression after the death of her husband, Tom, moving forward to the time of Diana's apparent suicide. The investigation of the suicide changes dramatically when police learn that Diana didn't have breast cancer, as she had told her family she did. Furthermore, evidence emerges indicating she may have been murdered. Police question Lucy, Ollie, Ollie's sister, Nettie, and her husband, Patrick, about their involvement in the possible murder, and each of them have motives, especially Lucy, given her contentious history with Diana. Hepworth's short, punchy chapters keep the pages quickly turning while effortlessly deepening her characters. Readers will race to the end of this clever novel to find the truth.
