Turn of mind features a crazysmart narrator in a gripping family drama that is itself a brilliant murder mystery. Alice laplantes new novel, turn of mind, is a murder mystery with a twist. Camera view displays the scene as it is being built. A mans sanity slowly unravels during a couples retreat to his isolated winter mansion.
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