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The Wicked Sister

Written by: Karen Dionne
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Andi Arndt
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Publisher's Summary

She thought she'd buried her past. But what if it's been hunting her this whole time?

From the best-selling 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.

You have been cut off from society for 15 years, shut away in a mental hospital in self-imposed exile as punishment for the terrible thing you did when you were a child.

But what if nothing about your past is as it seems?

And if you didn't accidentally shoot and kill your mother, then whoever did is still out there. Waiting for you.

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.

©2020 Karen Dionne (P)2020 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

One of Publishers Weekly's Best Suspense Books of 2020 

"A gut-clenching wilderness thriller." (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

"[A] neo-gothic psychological thriller that’s a true mind-bender...The Wicked Sister brings to mind those classic Bette Davis quasi-horror flicks Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Dionne has fashioned a superb character study of murder and madness that reads like Alfred Hitchcock at his best in book form." (Providence Journal)

"Dionne paints a haunting portrait of a family hurtling toward the tragic destiny they can foresee but are powerless to stop." (Publishers Weekly)  

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Really good, fantastic narration

I really enjoyed listening to this book. The two narrators are what make it great, and do an excellent job of captivating the reader. The characters are really well developed and interesting, too. The plot and story are also strong but pretty predictable-the title of the book definitely does it a disservice, but the overall execution of the book makes its predictably a non-issue - even when I knew what was gonna happen, I was still super engaged and captivated. Highly recommend!

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A good listen, emotional story

I found this story easy to listen to, I finished it within 2 days of starting it because I was so interested in the plot.
Some parts it was graphic- there's animal cruelty and description of murder. All together very interesting. The narration was great.

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