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    "description": "Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy.\n\nHow do you catch a killer if the victim doesn\u2019t exist?\n\nA glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists.\n\nThe only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman\u2019s body, including a set of keys and a book calledHow to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees\u2014a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene.\n\nLaughton Rees is an academic who doesn\u2019t usually work live cases after the brutal murder of her mother as a teen left her traumatized and emotionally scarred. But the presence of her book at this scene draws her unwillingly into the high-profile investigation and media circus that springs up around it. As the dark objects found beside the body lead her closer to the victim\u2019s identity, a dangerous threat to Laughton and her daughter emerges, as well as painful memories of her past related to the man she has always blamed for her mother\u2019s death: John Rees, Laughton\u2019s father, the current Metropolitan Chief Commissioner and a man she has not spoken to in twenty years.\n\nLaughton\u2019s family was destroyed once and she built herself a new one. Now, she has to face her darkest fears and help catch a killer before this one is destroyed too.",
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