REVIEW: Girl A - Abigail Dean (Harper Collins)
Lex, is successful lawyer and a survivor of a horrific upbringing in a home dubbed the "House of Horrors" by the press. Her father committed suicide before he could be arrested, but her mother was convicted of terrible crimes against her children and has now died in prison, bequeathing the family home to the children, complete with all these memories and ghosts. Now she must get in touch with all her siblings and in order to move on, she must rake up the past. Many murder mysteries have a dark undercurrent that threatens to overwhelm the reader at anytime, with the thinnest of assurance that its really there mainly as a plot device. But what if that line is so thin you cannot tell which side is safe? 'Girl A' takes you into the life of a family so dysfunctional that the worst extremes have become the most normal thing ever. This is a crushing tale delving into the horrors and events of of a devastating past, exploring the impact on pr...
