The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry is a wild ride of a mystery set in present day Salem, Massachusetts, full of witches, religious fanatics and other eccentric characters.
The story is told by Towner, also named Sophya, who has come back home to Salem after 15 years away in California, escaping from her troubled youth. We learn about the mysterious death of her twin sister and try to unravel her memories, which are muddy at best, and told in an almost dreamlike manner.
The death of her Aunt and a missing teenager have the police searching the town. This is all entwined with Towner's own unreliable memories, climaxing in a fully unexpected ending that made me want to go back and re-read the entire book.
Barry has created a page turner of a mystery, one that will keep you up late into the night and keep you thinking long after the last page is finished.
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