Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney ^new^

Taped to the kitchen wall, an old nursery rhyme appears: "Daisy Darker’s family were wicked, and not very clever. Nana found a note that said: ‘Your family will die, one after the other.’"

As the clock ticks toward midnight, the family members begin to die, one by one, exactly as the poem predicts. The narrative unfolds in real-time over the course of one long, dark night, with flashbacks explaining the dysfunctional family history that led to this bloody reunion. Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney

The protagonist, Daisy Darker, arrives with a heavy heart. She is the forgotten middle child, the one whose heart is literally weak (she has a life-threatening heart condition). She is accompanied by her cold, famous children’s author mother, Nancy; her narcissistic older sister, Rose; her cruel, social-media-obsessed younger sister, Trixie; and the estranged patriarch, Frank. Taped to the kitchen wall, an old nursery