Some family secrets are written in blood.A fairytale marriage. 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. But marriage to Hugo has drawn her into the orbit of a wealthy, dysfunctional family with a dark secret at its core.When Effie confides to her best friend that Hugo is trying to kill her, no one believes her.As bodies begin to pile up, Detective Inspector Miranda Murphy must unravel a decade-old mystery before the Fincham family claims another victim. But in a world where money buys silence, even the truth has a price.Dead Matters is the first installment in the Detective Miranda Murphy Series, a must-read for fans of police procedurals and murder mysteries._____________________________________________________________________________This title was previously published as Black Grapes._____________________________________________________________________________Praise for the Detective Miranda Murphy Series:? ? ? ? ? A refreshing new DI has arrived? ? ? ? ? Stunning debut novel!? ? ? ? ? Top-notch storytelling and characters? ? ? ? ? Love 'British' Detective Murphy? ? ? ? ? Crime fiction you can believe in? ? ? ? ? Great mystery and intrigue with good end twists.