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Beschreibung

Succession meets Saltburn in a crackling locked room murder mystery of inconceivable wealth, unchecked power, and the secrets poised to bring a powerful family down.

It's 2004 and former reality TV star and party girl Maya Miller has just married the most eligible bachelor on the planet: Colin Sterling, of the globally famous Sterling family, whose history of aristocratic titles and land holdings rival a British royal and whose media empire is comparable to the Murdochs.

To some, Maya represents the American dream. To others, a gold digger. But when Colin's cousin Arianna, the heiress to the family's immense fortune, is found murdered, Maya is thrust into the spotlight: first as she is revealed to be the next heiress to the fortune, and then as the prime suspect.

Swiftly, the entire Sterling family goes into lockdown at Silver House, the family's ancestral estate in the English countryside. They're told it's for their own safety - but Maya becomes convinced that it's not to keep threats out, but to keep secrets in.

Now, she has no choice but to find and expose the truth hidden within the Sterling family, and why Arianna, a girl she had never met, chose her to take her place. But Maya has secrets of her own. And she knows that in order to survive the Sterlings, she'll have to beat them at their own game.

They say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But when your enemies are the Sterlings, that old adage may just prove deadly.

Tropes

Locked Room Mystery
Suspense Thriller
Murder Mystery
Family Secrets
Inheritance War

Succession meets Saltburn in a crackling locked room murder mystery of inconceivable wealth, unchecked power, and the secrets poised to bring a powerful family down.

It's 2004 and former reality TV star and party girl Maya Miller has just married the most eligible bachelor on the planet: Colin Sterling, of the globally famous Sterling family, whose history of aristocratic titles and land holdings rival a British royal and whose media empire is comparable to the Murdochs.

To some, Maya represents the American dream. To others, a gold digger. But when Colin's cousin Arianna, the heiress to the family's immense fortune, is found murdered, Maya is thrust into the spotlight: first as she is revealed to be the next heiress to the fortune, and then as the prime suspect.

Swiftly, the entire Sterling family goes into lockdown at Silver House, the family's ancestral estate in the English countryside. They're told it's for their own safety - but Maya becomes convinced that it's not to keep threats out, but to keep secrets in.

Now, she has no choice but to find and expose the truth hidden within the Sterling family, and why Arianna, a girl she had never met, chose her to take her place. But Maya has secrets of her own. And she knows that in order to survive the Sterlings, she'll have to beat them at their own game.

They say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But when your enemies are the Sterlings, that old adage may just prove deadly.

Tropes

Locked Room Mystery
Suspense Thriller
Murder Mystery
Family Secrets
Inheritance War

Über den Autor
Anna Sophia McLoughlin lives in Litchfield County with her family, where she teaches creative writing and profiles artists and designers for various publications.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 512 S.
ISBN-13: 9781464243332
ISBN-10: 1464243336
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McLoughlin, Anna Sophia
Hersteller: Sourcebooks, Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 199 x 132 x 37 mm
Von/Mit: Anna Sophia McLoughlin
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2025
Gewicht: 0,356 kg
Artikel-ID: 129985915