Your mother is dead.
Your father is alive.
She re-read it, her fingers gripping the paper until it creased at the edges, and looked around. She was on-edge again. As an investigative journalist, it was an occupational hazard having enemies. She’d received many crank calls, threats and letters over the years. Most of them went straight into the bin, some of them went to senior management or the legal team at the Chronicle. But this. This felt like something else.
You didn’t have to make a threat or throw a punch to hurt someone. Sometimes just a few words were all it took to throw you off your axis and as Lara re-read the words one more time, she knew that something had changed, possibly forever.
She took a deep breath. There was nothing she could do about it now. Not yet. She would show it to Alex, maybe even Nicholas. She folded the letter in two and slipped it back into the envelope. She would think about it tomorrow.
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The Last Supper
Sven Widlund is the darling of the food world and his remote Swedish farm-to-table restaurant Kluven is the most exclusive restaurant in the world. Situated on an isolated peninsula, it is only accessible by boat and there is only one communal table for twelve lucky people.
When Lara Stone snags a reservation, it promises to be a dinner to remember, but murder is on the menu. Sven is found dead and everyone spending the weekend at the snowy retreat is a suspect. Can Lara untangle the lies and find the killer before she finds a knife in her own back?
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About the Author
Tasmina Perry is the author of the international top ten bestsellers Daddy’s Girls, Gold Diggers, Guilty Pleasures, Original Sin, Kiss Heaven Goodbye, Private Lives, Perfect Strangers, The Proposal, Deep Blue Sea, The Last Kiss Goodbye, The House on Sunset Lake, The Pool House and Friend of the Family
She is a former lawyer and award-winning journalist. She was editing the UK edition of InStyle magazine when her debut novel Daddy’s Girls became a top ten bestseller. She has since written fifteen novels, been published in twenty-one countries and sold over two million copies worldwide. She lives in London with her husband and son.
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