This was a very long and quite difficult book and I can’t pretend I really enjoyed it.
The central character (Toby) gets beaten up (for reasons fairly unclear until the end, but the reasons add nothing except to tidy up a gap in the plot). He retreats to an old family home, occupied by an uncle dying of cancer. Various relatives visit, and one of his nephews finds a body in the old Wych Elm tree in the garden. It transpires that he was a school contemporary of Toby and his cousins who are visiting. It (eventually) transpires that the guy was killed by 2 of Toby’s cousins, but he is the prime suspect. However to divert the police, the uncle confesses and shortly afterwards dies. Toby is visited by a policemen who has pretty well worked out the solution; they fight and the policeman, improbably, dies. Toby escapes a murder charge, on grounds I think of insanity or mental illness.
I like Tana French but this is prolix and ultimately of little interest, certainly, to me.
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