![]() For a few weeks, he enjoys a rebirth of the golden summers of his childhood, helping Uncle Hugo with his genealogical research, healing, and reconnecting with Susanna and Leon, who had-for reasons unremarked by him-broken off their friendship years earlier. ![]() ![]() Struggling with a droopy eyelid, a faulty memory, and a bad limp, Toby returns to Elm House to nurse both himself and Uncle Hugo, who is dying from brain cancer. He’s also dating Melissa, a sweet woman whose nurturing nature serves him well when he is grievously injured during a burglary. Now in his late 20’s, he has a flashy job in a Dublin art gallery, a BMW and a gold watch, and an apartment that his parents helped buy. He was born to wealthy, Anglo-Irish parents, is good-looking, did well in school, and has spent his childhood summers playing with his cousins, Susanna and Leon, in Elm House, their Uncle Hugo’s expansive home. Toby Hennessy views himself as a lucky man. Like a feral cat toying with food, Tana French reveals all the little deceits and treacheries that build on one another to produce a corpse rotting in an elm tree. ![]() The Witch Elm, a psychological suspense novel set in Ireland, upturns its author’s preoccupation with how the Dublin Murder Squad nabs a killer instead, it focuses on a shallow, self-absorbed young man, who comes to believe himself guilty of murder-and the evil he inflicts when slammed with that knowledge. ![]()
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