A new wife. A wealthy family. A strange mother-in-law.Maybe it was always going to end in murder.Effie Watson thought she had it made when she married Hugo Fincham. He was rich and good-looking with an exclusive central London home. What could possibly go wrong?But marriage to Hugo has drawn Effie into the orbit of a wealthy, dysfunctional family with a dark secret at its core and, not long after the birth of her daughter, Effie tells her best friend, Olivia, that Hugo is trying to kill her.Detective Inspector Miranda Murphy is middle-aged and battle-hardened. She's seen it all and she's not going to be fazed by the Finchams.When the killings start, Murphy has to find out what really happened ten years ago.