Odile Annesley is approaching eighty and has been living alone in France for forty years Upon contacting her scattered grandchildren to give them details of her will, the granddaughters see it as the perfect opportunity for a family get together Clemency, the perfect wife and mother London property dealer, Madeleine Paris dress designer, Elodie academic Canadian Isabelle Cherie, the misfit and Harry, the golden haired boy Then the killing starts, the secrets spill and it is clear that despite their shared characteristics, one of them is very different indeed