NYPD detective Shana Merchant and her partner Tim Wellington are called out to Tern Island with a report of a missing person. The only way to get to this island is by boat and making things harder is the nor'easter n their area. Once they get to the island, they are met by Norton, who is the caretaker along with many other duties.
The Sinclair family owns this island and they are all there this weekend. Camilla is the matriarch of the family, and she is with her son Flynn and his partner Ned, her daughter Bebe and her husband Miles and his daughter Jade, and her son Jasper and his girlfriend Abella. When everyone wakes up one morning, there's blood in Jasper is gone, there's blood in his bed, and Abella has blood on her. Yet the family feels that he is only missing and not dead. Shana and Tim arrive and start their investigation. After talking to the entire family, they find everyone has a very different story about what took place. Several have mentioned a fight between Jasper and Abella, along with Flynn and Jasper having a fight.
While Shana feels that this is a murder, Tim thinks it is just a missing person case. It seems that everyone in this family has a secret. Ned, even though he is with Flynn, is having an affair with Bebe. Ned’s goal is to work his way up as high as he can in the family business, but the business is having money problems. While Carmilla has given everyone extra money, Jasper is the only one who has not spent his. Now they find out that in Carmilla change her will so that Jasper will get everything. . . Can Shana and Tim really get to the bottom of this?
DEATH IN THE FAMILY by Tessa Wegert, part of her Shana Merchant series, is a great novel. I really enjoyed the fact that I didn’t figure this out until the end. To me, this makes a great mystery novel. Wegert shows how, when it comes to money, even family will do anything to get ahead. This family is really a piece of work.
I can’t even imagine having enough money to own my own island. I really enjoyed this book and will be looking for more Shana Merchant novels.
A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. In this captivating mystery that's perfect for fans of Knives Out, Senior Investigator Shana Merchant discovers that murder is a family affair.
Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she's taken a job in her fiancé's sleepy hometown in the Thousand Islands region of Upstate New York.
But as a nor'easter bears down on her new territory, Shana and fellow investigator Tim Wellington receive a call about a man missing on a private island. Shana and Tim travel to the isolated island owned by the wealthy Sinclair family to question the witnesses. They arrive to find blood on the scene and a house full of Sinclair family and friends on edge.
While Tim guesses they're dealing with a runaway case, Shana is convinced that they have a murder on their hands. As the gale intensifies outside, she starts conducting interviews and discovers the Sinclairs and their guests are crawling with dark and dangerous secrets.
Trapped on the island by the raging storm with only Tim whose reliability is thrown into question, the increasingly restless suspects, and her own trauma-fueled flashbacks for company, Shana will have to trust the one person her abduction destroyed her faith in—herself. But time is ticking down, because if Shana's right, a killer is in their midst and as the pressure mounts, so do the odds that they'll strike again.
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