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The Heirs — A Murder Mystery About the Price of Perfection
What if an experiment designed to manufacture genius succeeds in a way its creator never intended?
In The Heirs, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé introduces Leontes Button, a billionaire who adopts five children and raises each to become exceptional in a chosen field. A chess grandmaster, a celebrated pianist, an Olympic fencer, an artist, and a writer whose supposed failure becomes a public identity. When their father is murdered aboard his yacht, the carefully constructed image of the Button family begins to collapse.
But beneath the murder mystery lies a more unsettling question: what does it mean to…
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