When a murder occurs in Mr. Audley's Asylum for the Troubled, the blame falls on a patient known as Mad Laurie. The police are ready to embrace this answer and Mad Laurie is hastily put in chains, but there is one who isn't quite so sure that the old woman is to blame.
Maud Chapman is a humble spinster, living in a respectable London apartment, and when she reads of the murder in the papers, she's not satisfied with the conclusion. Using the alias of Grace Cooper, Maud gets a job as a cook at the asylum and decides to investigate the case, but what she finds will uncover secrets that she could never have dreamed existed...
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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