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Best-Selling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The location is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day only a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was discovered dangling from the tree in his parents’ lawn. Robin’s killing continues to be unsolved twelve years later and his household remains ruined. So it's that Robin’s sibling Harriet—unnervingly vibrant, insufferably decided, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his monster.