A Brookvale Crime Novel
What Remains Ours
Tessa Nguyen finds her mother dead at home. Hours earlier, her brother had asked their mother for a $200,000 loan. She said no.
Reads as a standalone — no prior series reading required.
Tessa Nguyen finds her mother dead hours after a bitter argument over a $200,000 loan. As police investigate, Tessa must examine her own family as evidence—and decide how much loyalty can survive the facts.
Tessa Nguyen comes home from a date and finds her mother dead on the bathroom floor.
Mary had been living with recurrent cancer, and at first no one knows whether her death was an accident. Then Tessa learns what happened before she left the house: her brother Shawn had asked their mother for a $200,000 loan. Mary refused, and they argued.
As police work to determine what happened, Tessa begins looking at her own family the same way she once looked at insurance claims—one fact at a time.
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