Katy Hays: The Vipers, Bantam UK, 9780857505972, c format paperback, March 2025 pub date

The Vipers in this case  are a filthy rich family, the Lingates,  whose controlled image to the outside world was disrupted by the questionable accidental death of Sophie Lingate in Capri 30 years ago. Helen, her only daughter will be sole heir to the family fortune, tightly controlled by her father and uncle, and is starting to question what really happend to her mother. When her assistant Lorna disappears, the family unity begins to unravel.

I found the novel highly constructed, throw in a jetset setting on the island of capri and a questionable death followed by an equally constructed ending. Not my type of thriller even Hay's previous book The Cloisters became a bestseller.