One of P’s. I quite enjoyed this and it was original in that the two central characters Dan and Bea (Dante P suggested?!) are both dead at the end of the book.
The final pages confused me. I kept expecting the snakes to merge from the attic or the bag containing the money, but they didn’t and instead the baddie killed the central characters.
The rest of the plot is dispelled (?right word) by the ending; very wealthy London family; father a corrupt property developer, wife a child abuser (why?), three kids, one like father; daughter who can’t stand his values and younger (I think) son with mental health issues, abused by his mother.
Daughter Bea has black boyfriend Dan and is trying to live a conventional left wing life and works as a therapist. Boyfriend Dan is an artist who works as an estate agent to earn a living although later in the book her father tries to bribe him into running companies for him, which creates a degree of tension.
They go on holiday to France to the run down hotel the younger brother Alex runs chaotically. Alex dies mysteriously and the parents appear, and the French police are clueless. It appears that Alex has been collecting money for his Dad from Swiss banks and has been murdered by a gangster.
It is a good complex plot, as the length of this summary indicates, but the ending confused me – just doesn’t fit with the rest of the plot.
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