Monday, August 19, 2019

The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth by Sally Hepworth FIC Hep

     Mother-in-law books will never go out of style!  In this novel Lucy is the DIL who struggles with her relationship to her MIL, Diana.  Lucy is never able to have the bond she wanted with her.  Diana was polite but never warm - at least with Lucy.  Yet Diana was well-respected in the community.  After all she spent her time helping female refugees become a part of the community.  Her deceased husband, Tom, had left her well off.
       Five years into Lucy's marriage Diana is found dead.  According to a suicide note she had cancer and didn't want to go through it.  Seemed like a likely reasons for suicide - except the autopsy makes it clear that there was no cancer.  But there was some poison and signs of suffocation.
    It is also discovered that Diana recently changed her will and left no money to her two adult children or their spouses.  There are some things that will have to be explained!
      I loved the book.

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