Past Mischief — Clare Curzon

BLOOD TIES

Annette Briers shows up for work on Monday morning and finds a dead stranger in the chair of her boss, Miranda Gregory. Later she learns that Miranda herself was the victim of a hit and run, alive but barely.

Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his team from the Thames Valley Police Force try to link the two crimes. But elegant, standoffish Miranda is a mystery woman without any past, or so it seems.

Soon a shadowy pattern of past evil emerges, as does love in all its incarnations--denied, frustrated, betrayed and defiled. The solution lies in the family that wasn't...and a secret that blurs the distinction between good and bad.