The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

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Bestselling-author-Donna-Tartt-returns-with-a-grandly-ambitious-and-utterly-riveting-novel-of-childhood,-innocence-and-evil.The-setting-is-Alexandria,-Mississippi,-where-one-Mother’s-Day-a-little-boy-named-Robin-Cleve-Dufresnes-was-found-hanging-from-a-tree-in-his-parents’-yard.-Twelve-years-later-Robin’s-murder-is-still-unsolved-and-his-family-remains-devastated.-So-it-is-that-Robin’s-sister-Harriet—unnervingly-bright,-insufferably-determined,-and-unduly-influenced-by-the-fiction-of-Kipling-and-Robert-Louis-Stevenson–sets-out-to-unmask-his-killer.-Aided-only-by-her-worshipful-friend-Hely,-Harriet-crosses-her-town’s-rigid-lines-of-race-and-caste-and-burrows-deep-into-her-family’s-history-of-loss.