Sister: The phenomenal Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller

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Eerie psychological mystery…With its loving portrayal of what it means to be a sister balanced by some impressively Hitchcockian twists,SISTER should appeal to fans of the character-driven mysteries of Kate Atkinson and Tana French. Jacintha, the English teacher, is in the middle of the reading poem with a class, and she is forced to stop and cope with the unfolding tragedy. She leaves behind no memories worth keeping: her husband is dead, her boss has made no bones about disliking her, and she’s looking forward to new responsibilities and the higher salary underwritten by North Dakota’s sudden oil boom. Beatrice has always been close to her sister Tess, but after moving to the States they grow more distant. There was a fair bit of repetitiveness which really slowed the pace of the novel down and I felt that every little movement or life event was documented and probably didn't need to be.

His love drives him for his younger and emotionally troubled brother, Basi, and his desire to save him and the other students. The blurb does not do the book justice and from what I read on the cover, it was certainly not what I expected. Without spoiling it, a lot of the information involved is heavily medical, and went right over my head. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs.

This didn't ring true for me and I didn't see why Beatrice had to have a high-flying job or be living in New York for the story to work.

In the most secure place, the theatre, the drama teacher, Daphne, has locked her students presiding over the dress rehearsals of Macbeth as she struggles for a degree of normalcy. Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. Bohjalian’s “The Double Bind", with its ending that irritated the heck out of me, came to mind when I finished this book - same sense of disappointment in the resolution of the story. I would put this on the same shelf as the better of the two Sophie Hannah mysteries I read last year, A Room Swept White (and I think readers who loved Sister would probably enjoy that book too).

The bond between them has always been strong, and when Beatrice hears that her younger sister is missing, she comes back to her hometown to find out what exactly happened to her sister. Sister’ was one of the first books that were published in the book of the psychological suspense genre, but it definitely pushed the bar high from the start, especially in terms of the quality of the writing. Someone is kind or looks kind or does or says something kindly/with kindness on more or less every other page. She wasn't trying to be likeable, she would just do anything to find out what happened to her sister.