New York Times bestselling mystery series. **Grace Ashby wakes to the sound of a horrifying scream**. She races down the hallway, finding her mother's lifeless body on the floor in a pool of blood. Her mother's boyfriend Hugh is hunched over her. At first glance it seems Hugh is to blame, but is

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