@MichiganPal I’ve just started the Red House by Roz Watkins. I’m only a few chapter in but am so far enjoying it, after a couple of false starts on books that failed to keep my interest. It is about a dark topic but hopefully will be suspenseful rather than grim.
It does have the below quote, which my greyhound-adjacent part-whippet would resent if she could bestir herself from her bed…