The little friend
/ Donna Tartt
- New York : Borzoi Book / Alfred A. Knopf , c2002.
- 555 p. ; 24 cm.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents' yard. Twelve years later Robin's murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin's sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson - sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town's rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family's history of loss.
English.
9780679439387
Murder victims' families----Fiction Death----Fiction Brothers and sisters----Fiction Revenge ----Fiction