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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

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The End of Her, November 2022
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Not a Happy Family, July 2022
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Not a Happy Family, August 2021
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The End of Her, August 2020
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Someone We Know, May 2020
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Someone We Know, August 2019
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An Unwanted Guest, May 2019
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An Unwanted Guest, August 2018
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The Couple Next Door, May 2018
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A Stranger in the House, August 2017
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Not a Happy Family
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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Women's Fiction Psychological | Thriller 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.
 
Wouldn't you?

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