Pretty Dead Things: a Gripping Psychological Thriller

Returning home was her first mistake. Digging deeper may be her last.An Old Hollywood actress. Her four adopted daughters. A sprawling Victorian manor surrounded by a bubbling swamp.One sister drowns. Another refuses to believe it was an accident.When Briar returns home for the funeral, she doesn’t expect the feeling of being watched or the flashes of her sister’s dark hair in the corner of her eye. She tells herself it’s just grief. It’s all inside her head. Then she finds a note, three lines in her sister’s handwriting, that changes everything:B,She’s not who you think.You’re next.Pretty Dead Things is a dark, atmospheric psychological thriller perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Riley Sager, and Freida McFadden. When a woman returns to her family’s decaying estate in the Everglades after her sister’s mysterious death, she’s drawn into a web of lies spun by her Old Hollywood mother—a woman who might be both victim and monster.It’s The Haunting of Hill House meets The Heiress, a gothic thriller simmering in Florida heat, buried secrets, and family madness.