Karen Dionne. (2020). The Wicked Sister. Penguin Publishing Group.

Karen Dionne. 2020. The Wicked Sister. Penguin Publishing Group.

Karen Dionne, The Wicked Sister. Penguin Publishing Group, 2020.

Karen Dionne. The Wicked Sister. Penguin Publishing Group, 2020.

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

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     Starred review from June 1, 2020
     Rachel Cunningham, the protagonist of this devastating, magic realism–dusted psychological thriller from Dionne (The Marsh King’s Daughter), has been guilt-ridden for 15 years since a twin tragedy she can’t remember—her mother’s murder and father’s apparent suicide—when she was 11 at her family’s vast wilderness estate on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She has voluntarily confined herself to a decaying mental institution, where one day she gains access to the original police report, obtained somehow by a fellow patient’s brother, that sparks the faint hope she’s not responsible for her parents’ deaths—and sends her back to the family estate, where her brilliant but scary older sister, Diana, and their aunt still live, to try to figure out what really happened. But Rachel’s mission soon becomes far more perilous than she anticipated. Arriving unannounced at a time when both women are away, she discovers paperwork indicating that Diana is up to no good. As Rachel scrambles to remain undetected, the tension at times becomes almost unbearable, especially as the reader becomes privy to critical information unknown to Rachel via flashbacks narrated by her late mother. Dionne paints a haunting portrait of a family hurtling toward the tragic destiny they can foresee but are powerless to stop. Agent: Jeff Kleinman, Folio Literary Management.

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     June 1, 2020
     Fifteen years ago, Rachel Cunningham killed her parents. Or so she thought. Rachel was only 11 when she shot her mother, watched her father turn his rifle on himself in their remote hunting lodge on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and then was found catatonic after having disappeared into the deep woods for two weeks. Now 26, she's been in and out of psychiatric institutions, unable to come to terms with her terrible deed. The world thinks her father killed her mother, then himself: Rachel confessed, but no one believed her. One day, Trevor, an aspiring journalist, sits down with Rachel so she can tell her story and hopefully clear her father's name. Then she plans to take her own life. But when Rachel catches a glimpse of the police report that says there's no way she could have fired that rifle, she questions everything she thought she knew about that day, and the gaps in her memory take on an even more ominous hue. She checks herself out of the hospital, calls Trevor for a ride, and heads back to the lodge, where her older sister, Diana, and her aunt, Charlotte, have lived for years. Choosing to hide out in the lodge rather than reveal herself, Rachel searches for clues about her parents' deaths and soon realizes that Diana, and their complicated relationship, may hold the key to everything. Interspersed with Rachel's present-day narrative, her mother, Jenny, who was a wildlife biologist along with Rachel's father, Peter, details the years leading up to her death and the distressing events that marked their otherwise idyllic existence. Dionne has her locale down pat: It doesn't get much creepier than a huge lodge filled with taxidermic animals where cell signals are scarce and dangers lurk in the surrounding woods. The characters lack nuance, though, and Dionne tends to clearly telegraph upcoming plot twists. Further, the book's true villain does everything short of mustache twirling, and it's not quite clear if readers should take Rachel's earnest claim that she can talk to animals seriously. In the end, it's all just a bit too much. A melodramatic, ultimately disappointing endeavor.

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     June 5, 2020
     

     Rachel abruptly checks out of the psychiatric facility where she has resided for 15 years when a reporter reveals that she could not have been responsible for killing her parents, a belief she has held since age 11. Seeking answers, Rachel returns to the remote family lodge in Michigan's pristine Upper Peninsula, where her parents, both biological scientists, studied wildlife in a place that ensured her sly, deceptive sister Diana was kept apart from society. Their mother, Jenny, struggles with evidence of Diana's psychopathic tendencies, loving and fearing her. Both girls become expert at tracking animals, identifying wildlife, and both excel on the shooting range. Rachel has an additional special talent, understanding animal voices. When a rare albino bear is discovered, she forms a special bond with him, an act that puts their lives in grave danger. Dionne (The Marsh King's Daughter) begins with a pleasing, pervasive sense of unease that is unfortunately rife with improbabilities by the conclusion. Moreover, the magnificent setting and convincing character study of a child psychopath are undermined by inconsistent plot details. VERDICT Despite the story's few flaws, Dionne knocks out a psychological thriller with a low-grade yet ever-present sense of danger. Fans of Paul Doiron and environmental thrillers may like this book. [See Prepub Alert, 1/29/20.]--Gloria Drake, Oswego P.L. Dist., IL

     Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     July 1, 2020
     Horror movie meets mystery in Dionne's second psychological thriller (following The Marsh King's Daughter, 2017). The story is organized in two juxtaposed narratives, a standard feature these days for authors who thrive on head fakes. The first thread, titled Now, finds the heroine, Rachel, writing in the present. The second, titled Then, comprises a journal kept by Rachel's mother, who talks not only about Rachel, but also Rachel's older, wicked sister, a congenital psychopath. At book's start, Rachel, who has been in a psychiatric facility for 15 years since she allegedly shotgunned her mother to death, suddenly learns she was not responsible for that murder. The gradual revelations from the mother's journal build tension as Rachel, in the present, goes to her home on Michigan's Upper Peninsula to discover the truth. This is where horror-movie conventions come into play, as Rachel makes decisions that put her more and more in danger. This is strong on the psychology of guilt and great at creating the spooky, haunted-house landscape, but the absurd, horror-movie plot elements get in the way a bit.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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

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