02048cam a2200289 i 4500 359252453 TxAuBib 20181002120000.0 180508s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018022167 9780735224629 HRD 28.00 0735224625 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda French, Tana. The Witch Elm [Book] : a novel / Tana French. New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018] 509 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one ofthe best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, when we no longer know who we are"-- Provided by publisher. 20181002. Crime Fiction. Literary. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction.