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Book Review of The Poison Tree

The Poison Tree
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Wow! This book was so much better than I expected it to be! It starts out with Karen and her young daughter, Alice, bringing home her husband from prison after serving 10 years of a murder sentence. Karen tells the story of the summer of '97 leading up to the event that sent him to prison, so the book goes back and forth between present events and the past as it played out. I kept turning pages because you only know 2 people are dead and I wanted the answers to who, how and why. It is gripping and there are some twists at the end I didn't see coming that left me reeling! Well done! I highly recommend!