The Mother-in-Law

Author: Sally Hepworth
Genre: Thriller / Fiction
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2019
Pages: 352
Rating: Highly Recommend

Synopsis: From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, she knew she wasn't the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. Exquisitely polite, friendly, and always generous, Diana nonetheless kept Lucy at arm's length despite her desperate attempts to win her over. And as a pillar in the community, an advocate for female refugees, and a woman happily married for decades, no one had a bad word to say about Diana. . .except Lucy.

That was five years ago.

Now, Diana is dead, a suicide note found near her body claiming that she no longer wanted to live because of the cancer wreaking havoc inside her body.

But the autopsy finds no cancer.

It does find traces of poison, and evidence of suffocation.

Who could possibly want Diana dead? Why was her will changed at the eleventh hour to disinherit both her children, and their spouses? And what does it mean that Lucy isn't exactly sad she's gone? 

Review: I give this a full five stars. It's layered, it's fiction, it's thriller, it's excellent. This is how you write a novel from different points of view, and with alternating past and present story lines. 

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