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death of loved one

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Former child actor Cilla McGowan returns to her movie-star grandmother's Virginia farmhouse to rescue it from ruin and to find out, with the assistance of her graphic novelist neighbour, whether her grandmother's mysterious death at age 39 was suicide or murder.

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