The Second Funeral

Claire Dakin knows her husband staged his own drowning — he emptied their accounts two weeks before his sailboat capsized, and his body was never found. Six months later, sitting in a Portsmouth grief support group, she meets Marion Tully, a piano teacher whose son died of an overdose she blames on a local marina owner. The two women strike a dangerous pact: trade targets, trade justice, and let no thread connect them. But in a conspiracy built on mutual trust, the deadliest secret is the one your partner is keeping from you.