Milly, Aubrey & Jonah are cousins who have never met. When they receive an invitation to an island resort belonging to their wealthy grandmother, they are more than surprised. This is the woman who sent all their parents a cryptic letter years before, then promptly disinherited them all.

Has she changed her mind? Does she want to get to know her grandchildren before it’s too late? Their parents ignore their protests about their individual summers being hijacked in this way, and they all arrive on the small, exclusive island.

Milly, Audrey and Jonah are completely different. Milly is strong minded, Audrey, easy going and polite, and Jonah, positively prickly. They get to know each other, but all have their own family secrets, or reasons to be there.

An island so small is impossible to hide in, and everybody knows who they are practically as soon as they step foot on land. The cousins are just as inquisitive as the residents, wanting to know the history of their famous family, and why their parents were written out of the lucrative will.

It’s not long before a life is lost, another discovered and too many things just don’t add up to the narrative they’ve been told their entire lives. What did their parents do all those years ago?

Told in multiple viewpoints and skipping between the present and 1996, the tangled web of the Story family secrets are slowly unraveled to reveal the truth and deceptions of their past.

However, all is not what it seems in the present either. Money, Lies, and Murder – pure Mcmanus.

Author – Karen M McManus

Age – 13+

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(Penguin Publishers, 2020, Betrayal, Crime, Family, Murder, Mystery, Revenge, Romance, Secret, Cousins, Lies, Island, Summer, Wealth, Rich, Resort, Multiple Viewpoints, TikTok)