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Running from her past, she finds a killer, a protector, and her faith.

Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

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NOT A HAPPY FAMILY
By: Shari Lapena

A Novel

Penguin Books
July 2022
On Sale: July 5, 2022
Featuring: Fred; Sheila
368 pages
ISBN: 1984880578
EAN: 9781984880574
Kindle: B08R1CZ966
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Thriller Psychological | Women's Fiction Psychological

Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated.
 
Or are they? They each stand to inherit millions. They were never a happy family, thanks to their vindictive father and neglectful mother, but perhaps one of the siblings is more disturbed than anyone knew. Did someone snap after that dreadful evening? Or did another person appear later that night with the worst of intentions? That must be what happened. After all, if one of the family were capable of something as gruesome as this, you'd know.
 
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