Eden

by Frederic Bean

The Kings aren't like other families. They are bound together by a hatred as vast as their oil-rich Texas ranch, and the purse strings of a fortune held by the cold matriarch of their wealthy clan. Helen King's five children have as little love for her as they do for each other. When her eldest son Howard is shot to death in his Dallas home, there is no shortage of suspects. As administrator of the King fortune, he was the focus for his siblings' deepest resentment. Everyone has a motive, no one has an alibi - and Matthew, who has always been the family peacekeeper, admits he was at the scene shortly before the murder...and saw nothing. As the police close in on the killer, Matthew faces an unwanted loyalty to a family that's never understood love, or saving his own skin.

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First published October 1, 1997

Reviews

[Martha Newman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good story about a mega-dysfunctional family which seems to have a dynamic that I went over my head, but I stuck with it to the end, which had an ending twist that struck me as pretty lame.