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The Poison Tree

By: Erin Kelly
Narrated by: Alison Reid
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It is the sweltering summer of 1997 when strait-laced, straight-A student Karen meets Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. She is drawn to her new friend’s carefree world of constant parties, and quickly abandons her old life to move into the crumbling Highgate mansion Biba shares with her brother Rex and a stream of lodgers. For a while, life is one long summer of love. But summer must end. And by the end of theirs, two people would be dead...

©2009 Erin Kelly (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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How have I missed Erin Kelly as a writer? Discovering her talent now is a joy. I read this after The Skeleton Key and have not been disappointed. A writer who doesn’t waste a word and chooses each one carefully. Love, loyalty, betrayal and trust run through the pages of this novel with passion and abandon. Highly recommend. Great performance made it even more enjoyable. (Nothing grated!)

Intriguing, seductive & criminal

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I picked this one up on a recommendation after we had both enjoyed The Skeleton Key by the same author.

Erin Kelly's writing is certainly very evocative, I enjoy her similes and her prose. The story in this novel is… very slow moving at first. I almost gave up around half-way through the book out of impatience as the narrative jumped between the backstory and the present situation with no real sense of progress towards explaining how we got from one to the other.

I am glad I persisted, as the pace accelerates and jerks significantly in the second half, building to an incredible (I mean this literally) crescendo.

The reading performance is first-class.

Slow start, builds to an incredible crescendo

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