But Berger senses there must be a connection between Webber’s death and Taryn’s silence, and his memories of the original crime leave him unwilling to let the matter drop. Someone is stalking Taryn – plaguing her with silent phone calls – and when a police detective, Jacob Berger, turns up on her doorstep asking questions about the death of Timothy Webber, Taryn suggests that Berger should stop bothering her and look for the stalker instead. Soon after his release, Beatrice’s killer is found dead in a ditch not far from the site of the original accident. The perpetrator, Timothy Webber, is sentenced to six years in jail Taryn remains convinced that her sister’s death was not an accident, but murder. When Taryn Cornick is still a teenager, her older sister Beatrice is killed in a hit-and-run. The Absolute Book has the feel of an instant classic, a work to rank alongside other modern masterpieces of fantasy such as Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series or Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. That international success has thus far been denied her is something of a scandal, but with her latest work the tide could be about to turn. E lizabeth Knox is the recipient of a multitude of literary honours in her native New Zealand, with the kind of popular following that befits the luminous quality of her writing.
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