Secrets to the Grave / Tami Hoag / 449 pages

"We don't get to have a nice neat explanation for everything that happens in life - bad or good.  I guess that's what life is:  things happen and how we deal with them makes us who we are.  We can either choose to learn and rise above, or give up and let bad things defeat us."  So says Anne Leone who has certainly learned and risen above an unhappy childhood.  She is immersed in a murder investigation and volunteers to care for the four year old daughter of the brutally murdered artist.  This is a page-turner "who done it" with multiple suspects, references to previously written books by Tami Hoag, and, unfortunately, a predictable perpetrator.