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The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Someone We Know who has sold more than 7 million copies of her books worldwide

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets--especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don't come much richer than Fred and Sheila Mercer. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mercers are brutally murdered the night after an 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 capricious father and neglectful mother, but perhaps one of them is more disturbed than anyone knew. Did one of them snap after that dreadful evening? Or was it someone else that night who crept in with the worst of intentions? It must be. After all, if one of your siblings was a psychopath, you'd know.

Wouldn't you?

15 chapters

wow
(view spoiler)[ okay so each sibling was unaccounted for and had no cell phone

Catherine - went back to talk to mom
Dan - went for a "drive"
and Jenna was out and asked her boyfriend to cover for her

the dad really was awful to them that night but I wonder why. and I wonder why the mom took antianxiety

I wonder if the mom planned for them to be murdered. . .probably not, but I wonder if she knew her husband was going off the rails (hide spoiler)]

30 chapters

(view spoiler)[ well well well
we have an awful lot of them without alibis
plus, if you keep in mind the spouses also didn't have an alibi while the siblings were away. . .and that's a lot of peple who could have done something

but I still wonder if the wife had someone kill them. I wonder if tha truck will end up being the secret or if the siblings really did it. (hide spoiler)]

45 chapters

(view spoiler)[ wow, I didn't see it coming that Rose actually took Dan's money!

it still seems like it's not one of the three kids. Could it be Ellen? She definitely could have gotten to Audrey and she might have not wanted Audrey to get half the money if it meant taking money from her own daughter (hide spoiler)]

wow, this one has a lot of angles and twists!

and I'm done

(view spoiler)[ Jenna doing it felt a bit like a let down. I was sad, she seemed to be the least bullied and the least mad. She'd lived a bit of charmed life, never really having to achieve anything.

I'm glad, in the end, Irena was a bit done with them
Audrey was really nasty - I was kind of glad she didn't get a big payout either. She just wanted lots of money for free - she was no better than the kids

Rose was awful. I'm glad she was caught

there was a lot of "oh the secrets I could tell" from every character but I was never really all that impressed with their secrets. . .I just thought there would be more. but the dad was an awful bully (hide spoiler)]