Date Read: 14
Author: Tana French
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 5/5
Rather than focusing on the detectives, in The Witch Elm the novel is written and the mystery is presented from the perspective of one of the suspects involved. I always love an unreliable narrator, and this is perhaps one of the best novels with an unreliable narrator that I’ve read yet.
“The thing is, I suppose,” he said, “that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.”
– The Witch Elm
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 