Six Graves by Angela Marsons

What I did not like about this book is that they merged two stories, with the second one being about disgruntled prisoner who hates Kim Stone . He has escaped from jail with the sole piurpose of seeking revenge. It did not lend anything interesting to the main crime other than just add additional pages of no importance to me.

Now the main crime:

When Detective Kim Stone rushes to the scene of a house fire, she’s shocked to discover it’s claimed the lives of two teenage children and their parents. But this tragedy is not quite as it seems. Each body is marked by a gunshot wound and the mother, Helen Daynes, is holding the gun. However there are questions if she started the fire before killing herself or someone killed them and started the fire.

Additional information:

1. There are remaining sibings. Twins. One gay twin with a partner and a female twin with a husband and child.

2. The younger daughter who was killed is 15 years old and is pregnant.

3. The mom changed the will stating she wanted children not naturally born to her to inherit the business and other properties.

4. She had a foster child who she had to return because she was having a difficult pregnancy. The child she was carrying died afterwhich she tried very  hard to get her foster child back. Unfortunately, Social Services would not allow her to get the child back because she might return him again.

Her mental state deteriorated but she still gave birth to the  the twins and eventually the 2 younger ones. Then she decided to foster another child.

What we eventually learn:

The foster child was actually the partner of the gay twin and who also seduced the female twin in order to get close to the family. When he learned the mom planned to foster another child, he was enraged because she returned him. Next, he found out about the will wherein she wanted any child not born to her naturally to also inherit. He thought she made this change in the will for the new foster child. What he didn't know was she intended to find the foster child and included him in the will.Hence he killed the family except his partner and even the female twin who was falling in love with him.

The 15 year old was impregnated by the female twin's husband. So he got fired from the business the family had and is thrown in jail. The gay twin eventually took care of his sister's child after the husband was thrown in jail.

It was such a heartbreaking story. Imagine being returned to foster care after the mom got pregnant. He did not know she had a difficult pregnancy and actually wanted to get him back. The change of the will was made with him in mind.