Sister is the debut novel by the British author Rosamund Lupton. It is an impressive, haunting, harrowing, and heartbreaking debut. When their mother calls Bee in New York to tell her that her younger sister, Tess, has been missing for four days, Bee catches the next flight to London. She expects to find Tess and deliver the usual lecture about responsibility. Instead her sister's body is found in a nearby park. And despite the police ruling the death a suicide and her family's acceptance of this ruling, Bee is adamant that she knows her sister, that she knows her well enough to know that Tess would never take her own life. Determined to find her sister's murderer, Bee moves into Tess's apartment and begins her own investigation predicated on the certainty of the closeness of the relationship between herself and Tess. The story is structured as a long letter that Bee has written to Tess to explain to her sister why she was murdered, who her murderer is...
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