How to Kill Your Family

Grace is killing Simon’s family for herself as much as for her mother, because Marie never sought to right the Artemis family’s wrongs. She feels they “both suffered because [Marie] was too weak to demand what was fair” (279). Now Jim won’t talk to her, having told the police he thinks she murdered Caro. Grace blames herself for being so “possessed” by her plan for revenge that she failed to build a life she could return to when finished. Grace is confident her appeal will be successful, especially after her lawyer got hold of a video from a camera in a neighboring flat that shows Caro’s balcony on the night of her death. Grace was nowhere near her when she fell. Grace is too excited not to share the news with Kelly, thinking it can’t do any harm. Her conviction is overturned, and Jim gets in touch right away, apologizing and asking for Grace’s forgiveness. When she is released, she plans to wait a little while and then reach out to Lara Artemis, present herself as a “grieving daughter,” and approach her lawyer to figure out how to get her hands on the Artemis fortune.