The Little Friend — ranked audiobook

This week’s list includes The Little Friend, from Donna Tartt. Press play and stay for every chapter.

Widely followed novelist Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.n The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet – unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson–sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.n

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