Literary Fiction
A Beautiful Family
2025·320 pages
A ten-year-old uncovers unsettling secrets on a sunbaked summer holiday in this tense coming-of-age family mystery.
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A ten-year-old uncovers unsettling secrets on a sunbaked summer holiday in this tense coming-of-age family mystery.
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A New York Times Best Thriller of 2025 Over the course of one sunbaked summer vacation, a family is pulled into a web of mysteries that the younger daughter sets out to solve. A tense, page-turning debut of childhood, innocence, and evil. "I absolutely loved this page-turning family mystery and didn’t want it to end. . . An extraordinary, exquisitely written debut." --Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of Here One Moment At ten years old, she catches more than her parents and olde...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Teen crush; implied adult affairs and lust filtered through a child’s POV
Violence & gore
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Missing children, presumed drowning, and police investigation without graphic gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic elements present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Child disappearance central; sister targeted by troubled teens; family harm themes
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