We learned about Beatrice and Tess when Tess is dead. Beatrice is then summoned to come for the funeral in the UK from the US. Beatrice’s quest to find the murderer of her sister is a bit perplexing, as we haven’t had a chance yet to get to know them. We especially don’t understand what drives Beatrice in her search her Tess’ killer. Bee is certain that Tess didn’t commit suicide. Their family and the police accept the sad reality, but Bee feels sure that Tess has been murdered. Single-minded in her search for a killer, Bee moves into Tess’s apartment and throws herself headlong into her sister’s life—and all its secrets. Liesl Schillinger, The Mystery of a Sister’s Death, New York Times – Sunday book review, June 3, 2011

It was the fastest-selling debut of 2010 by a British writer, Book at Bedtime, a BBC Radio, and won the Richard and Judy Best Debut Novel of 2011 prize.

Sister

Bee is certain that Tess didn’t commit suicide. Their family and the police accept the sad reality, but Bee feels sure that Tess has been murdered. Single-minded in her search for a killer, Bee moves into Tess’s apartment and throws herself headlong into her sister’s life–and all its secrets. I know that I am bereaved but not diminished by your death. Because you are my sister in every fiber of my being. And that fiber is visible-two strands of DNA twisted in a double helix in every cell of my body-proving, visibly that we are sisters. But there are other strands that link us, that wouldn't be seen by even the strongest of electron microscopes...We are conjoined by hundreds of thousands of memories that silt down into you and stop being memories and become a part of who you are."

I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.”It’s always a good feeling to start a book and to be engrossed right from the start; it’s an even better feeling when you close the book completely satisfied. This was my experience with “Sister”. This is a stunningly written thriller that portrays the relationship between two sisters. It is a very lyrical book, but the characterisation is slightly undeveloped at the beginning of the novel.

This book is a debut novel by the author. That said, all I can say is I will definitely be reading more by her.

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Because you are my sister in every fiber of my being....but there are aother strands that link us, that wouldn't be seen by even the strongest electron microscope.......We are conjoined by hundreds os thousands of memories that silt down into you and stop being memories and become a part of who you are.”