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A dark, riveting, amazingly written booklet - by "a brilliant novelist", regarding to Richard Bausch - that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two people entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart and soul, a gruesome and unsolved murder. Past due one winter day in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his partner wiped out and their three-year-old daughter only - for just how many time? - in her room across the hall. He had recently begrudgingly considered a posture at a near by private university (far too expensive for local kids to attend) teaching fine art history and relocated his family into a tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been uncovered by prosperous outsiders searching for a rural idyll. George is, of course, the immediate suspect, the question of his guilt echoing in a story taken through with secrets both personal and professional. While his parents rescue him from suspicion, a consistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving Clare a heartless murderer. And three teenage brothers (orphaned by tragic circumstances) end up entangled in this enigma, not least because the Clares acquired moved to their years as a child home, a once-thriving dairy plantation. The pall of loss of life is ongoing and relentless; behind one offense there are certainly others, and even more than 20 years will go before a hard kind of justice is finally offered. A rich and complex portrait of your psychopath and a relationship, this is also an astute analysis of the various taints that can scar tissue very different people and even a whole community. Elizabeth Brundage is an essential talent who has given us a genuine modern classic.