The Mother-in-law by Sally Hepwort

The Mother-in-law by Sally Hepwort

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Genre - Suspense, Thriller, Domestic Thriller

Format - Hardcover

Length - 352 pages

*Amazon Blurb*

From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, she knew she wasn't the wife Diana had envisioned for her person 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 work to say about Diana...except Lucy.

 

That was 5 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 insider 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 of her children, and their spouses? And what does it mean that Lucy isn't even exactly sad she's gone? 

Fractured relationships and deep family secrets grow more compelling with every page in this twisty, captivating new novel from Sally Hepworth.

*My Review*

How many of you either grew up without a mother or had one that you weren't close to? Did you long for the day you got married so you could have that mother-daughter relationship with your mother-in-law? Lucy did. She wanted to have a super close relationship so bad, but was unable to win over Diane. Is Diane a horrible person or is Lucy a bad daughter-in-law. Did Lucy get sick of trying to befriend her and murder Diane? This book will take you on all sort of twists and turn to find out what really happened with Diane.