Twenty years ago, she was found bludgeoned in a rowboat at the MacAllister family’s Camp Macaw. No one was ever charged with the crime.
Now, after their parents’ sudden deaths, the MacAllister siblings return to camp to read the will and decide what to do with the prime real estate the camp occupies. Ryan needs to sell. Margaux hasn’t made up her mind. Mary believes in leaving well enough alone. Kate and Liddie - the twins - have opposing views. And Sean Booth, the groundskeeper, just hopes he still has a home when all is said and done.
But it’s more complicated than a simple vote. The will stipulates that until they unravel the mystery of what happened to Amanda, they can’t settle the estate. Any one of them could have done it, and each one is holding a piece of the puzzle. Will they work together to finally discover the truth, or will their secrets finally tear the family apart?
It's the summer of 1998 and the MacAllisters run a summer camp. Margeaux is one of their teenage daughters and works there along with her best friend, Amanda, as camp counsellors. Amanda is found dead in July and no one was ever found guilty of her murder.
Twenty years later, the elder MacAllisters had died that spring in a train accident and their wish was to have their will read at the end of the summer. Ryan, Margeaux, Kiddie, Kate and Mary, their now adult children gather at the camp to attend the reading of the will. They assume they will all inherit the camp and some have plans/hopes to sell it while others don't. It turns out the will is convoluted so it's not as easy as they think. No one can forget about Amanda's death as it factors into the division of the property.
It's been a few years since I've read one of this author's book and I wasn't crazy about it. I found the writing boring and draggy and hard to get through. Alas, by the time I got to the end, I didn't really care "whodunnit" and it was actually a bit of a letdown. It is written in the adult children's voices in third person perspective and Amanda's voice in first person perspective (the chapters are labeled). As a head's up, there is swearing.
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