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THE *INSTANT* NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND TORONTO STA BESTSELLER *THE FIRST EVER STAND-ALONE FROM AUTHOR OF THE DI ADAM FAWLEY MILLION-COPIES-SOLD SERIES*

**A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**

**A Guardian Best Crime and Thriller book of 2023**

'This devilishly clever, ground-breaking novel will keep you guessing' IAN…

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Murder in the Family is a hurricane of fresh air in the whodunnit genre. It was one of my holiday reads, and from the moment I started, I didn’t want to put it down.

I was even disappointed when my flight touched down because I wanted to keep going. The worst part about the book was nearing the end, because I knew that there’d be no way my second book could live up to it. I haven’t felt like that about a book in years.

It’s written in the style of a script from a Netflix true crime show. If…

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