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Mid-Day Mysteries

Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

2023-07-05 14:00:00 2023-07-05 15:00:00 America/New_York Mid-Day Mysteries Reed Memorial Library - Haymaker Room

Wednesday, July 05
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Reed Memorial Library

Haymaker Room

Relax and enjoy a casual discussion of this month's title. Limited to 15 participants. Books will be ready to check out one month before the event.

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?

Book Cover and Description courtesy of Penguin Random House

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussion |

TAGS: | Adult |

Reed Memorial Library

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