This is one of the best Lorac's mystery I read and I read a lot of them. A very complex, twisty, and surprising whodunit with an intriguing puzzle at the center in a case that could be a suicide or a murder.
I love following McDonalds investigating and this one kept me hooked and guessing. There's plenty of mystery and there's a perfect family that maybe is not so perfect.
Ruth Surrays, the dead woman, is at the center of a relationships but she's always a sort of far away idol, a woman who doesn't feel emotion or is so repressed to never feel them.
I was fascinated by the "turmoil of voices around her" paraphrasing Ezra Pound. We don't meet her, we learn about her via friends, colleagues and lovers.
This one of the best mysteries I read this year and I read it in one sitting.
The locked-room/impossible crime is a sort of fashionable marketing trope, this is the real thing, a challenge to solve a very complex puzzle.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine