Disclaimer: This book was kindly gifted to me by Pan Macmillan SA in exchange for an honest review.
Book Details
Title: Saint X; Author: Alexis Schaitkin; Published: 18 February 2020; Publisher: Pan Macmillan SA; Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Fiction; Page count: 343
My Thoughts
This is a debut novel and I cannot wait to read more from this author. I’d say its a good entry to the mystery genre and I’d highly recommend it.
Synopsis
Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men – employees at the resort – are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives.
Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth – not only to find out what happened the night of Alison’s death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation.
As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy.
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