Found Object

Jupiter Bellarose, the narrator of this unsettling tale of murder, intrigue, and family secrets from bestseller Frasier (Hush), was 16 when she and her father discovered the dismembered body of her famous actress mother in the backyard of their Savannah, Ga., home. Jupiter, now 36 and a hardened investigative reporter, returns to Savannah to write an article on the Lumet family, the owners of Luminescent, the beauty company her mother once represented. Estranged from her father, who still lives in the family house, Jupiter slowly starts to peel away the layers surrounding the crime. Buried memories and dreams of her and her father on that fateful night begin to fill her consciousness. Fears that she or her father killed her mother come to the fore. The tension rises as someone seeks to silence Jupiter, and the more she learns about the Lumets and her mother’s entanglements with them, the more suspects emerge, all with reason to commit murder. Jupiter’s discovery of the love she has been missing in her life provides some hope amid all the emotional turmoil, and Frasier neatly ties up each loose end with plausible answers. Psychological thriller fans will be satisfied. (Oct.)