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The uninvited by tim wynne jones5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. 14 & up)Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. Older teen readers looking for something akin to Celia Rees’s sensual, brooding The Wish House (2005) will not be disappointed. Still, the three separate viewpoints he incorporates are compelling, the climax is truly heart-pounding and the beautifully evoked bucolic setting comes from behind to play a starring role. The mystery of how the trio is linked would have been more satisfying had the author not spelled out their connections so plainly. While the cover and title of Wynne-Jones’s latest suggests a supernatural mystery, what emerges from the mist is more suspenseful family drama than haunted-house tale. ![]() As their lives begin to intersect, one of them unknowingly introduces a murderous presence into their midst, an action that will have tragic consequences for them all. Now young adults, the spoiled college coed, the introspective classical composer and the disenfranchised factory worker discover each other when each of them has cause to visit their father’s old studio in rural Canada. ![]() A selfish New York painter fathered three children by different mothers in his reckless youth. ![]()
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