![]() ![]() The Little Friend also has some good things. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town. The undercurrent of unlucky stars and Theo's hidalgo personality became a more roiling evil and apathy in it, but even in that awful winter shack there was a sort of glitz, a sparkle. Inspired by Houdini and Robert Louis Stevenson, twelve-year-old Harriet sets out to find her brother's murderer - and punish him. ![]() Twelve years later the family are no nearer to uncovering the truth of what happened to him. The day that nine-year-old Robin was found hanging by the neck from a tree in their front garden. One day is never, ever discussed by the Cleve family. ![]() Around and around it she walked, around the rusted metal legs. Harriet, cautiously, stepped towards it in the weedy clearing. The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, rose the water tower, its surface all washed out by the sun. ![]()
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