Suspicious Origin

When Boston cable television news producer Britt Andersen learns of the death of her beautiful sister, Greta, she heads straight for her sister's hometown. Estranged from Greta since their father died, Britt meets for the first time her attractive brother-in-law, Alec Lynch, the owner of a successful snowmobile dealership, and her eleven-year-old niece, Zoe, who narrowly escaped the fire with her life.� Surprised by the emotional bond that springs up between her and Zoe, Britt decides to spend time with her sister's family to help her niece recover from the tragedy. But soon Britt clashes with her brother-in-law and picks up clues about her sister's unhappy marriage and Alec's likely infidelity.� When the fire marshal discovers the house fire was set deliberately, Britt pushes the police to question Alec more closely. An outsider in a small town whose ways she doesn't understand, Britt finds it difficult to sort the truth from the gossip and the innuendos.� Why does Dr. Olivia Farrar, with whom Greta worked, hold a grudge against Alec? Is pretty Lauren Rossi merely Alec's devoted employee or "the other woman"? And what do the Carmichaels, Alec's former neighbors, really know about the events that led to the deadly conflagration? When Britt learns a closely guarded family secret she begins to question everything she believed about her sister's life and death...and unwittingly places herself on a collision course with a killer. Formats : EPUB,ORIGINAL_EPUB FN/LN : Patricia MacDonald When a tragic house fire kills her beautiful sister Greta, Britt Andersen heads for the Vermont town that claimed her sibling's life. But who set the deadly blaze? With as many twists and turns as there are suspects, Suspicious Origin sweeps to a startling conclusion that will keep readers flipping pages until the very end. Boston cable television news producer Britt Andersen returns to her Vermont hometown when her sister Greta dies in a house fire that almost killed her eleven-year-old niece, Zoe. She comes to believer her brother-in-law, Alec, may be responsible and with a local reporter begins to investigate the crime A chilling thriller about a woman who, while investigating her sister's death in a house fire of suspicious origin, uncovers the work of a twisted killer who has taken refuge in an idyllic Vermont town