The Wicked Sister
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"Chilling and captivating, The Wicked Sister explores the complex layers of family bonds, guilt, and redemption. A beautifully written, haunting psychological thriller." --Megan Miranda, author of All the Missing Girls From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Marsh King's Daughter comes a startling novel of psychological suspense as two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal, love and evil. For a decade and a half, Rachel Cunningham has chosen to lock herself away in a psychiatric facility, tortured by gaps in her memory and the certainty that she is responsible for her parents' deaths. But when she learns new details about their murders, Rachel returns, in a quest for answers, to the place where she once felt safest: her family's sprawling log cabin in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As Rachel begins to uncover what really happened on the day her parents were murdered, she learns--as her mother did years earlier--that home can be a place of unspeakable evil, and that the bond she shares with her sister might be the most poisonous of all.
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Rachel is in a mental hospital and believes herself to be responsible for parents deaths. When a reporter becomes a friend and interviews her, new evidence comes to light that makes her question everything. Returning to her home, she begins to remember.
This is a great psychological thriller. My first impressions were that it was odd after a casual mention of a talking spider. As it goes on, there are more talking animals but it starts to make sense, and then you begin to wonder if you are right or wrong–it gets cleared up at the end nicely.
This story is also very clean–aside from the obvious murders. There is one slightly disturbing instance involving ‘the wicked sister' writing words on a belly with a knife, but that's honestly the worst and not too bad–easily skippable.
