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Under the Harrow
By Flynn Berry
240 pages;
Penguin Books
When
London native Nora finds her only sister, Rachel, stabbed to death in her
country home—and her sister's dog hanging from the banister—she
is traumatized almost into paralysis. "I would have thought it would feel
like a dream, but it doesn't. The man driving next to me is real, the landscape
outside the window is real, and the wet sticking my shirt to my stomach." As
Nora searches for the killer, she learns that her sister, who was her closest
friend, was keeping some pretty distressing secrets, some of them about her own
life. The mystery deepens when investigators learn that Rachel suffered (but
survived) a similar attack by a stranger when she was 17. Flynn Berry's debut novel imbues the classic
murder mystery with rich emotional depth, describing Nora's anguish and grief
so acutely that the reader feels the emotional impact of her loss as deeply as
the desire to know who did it. The result is an investigation not just of the
crime but also of the fierce, complicated love that exists between sisters.
— Domenica Ruta
Published 08/03/2016