Chloe Hooper

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A Child's Book of True Crime

Chloe Hooper

Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted fourth grader, Lucien. Her lover’s wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true crime story about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress in a nearby town. When Lucien begins to display violent imagery in his crayon drawings, Kate wonders how well her pupil understands his mother’s grisly work and why he’s been exposed to it. Suspecting this account of Black Swan Point’s murder to be inaccurate, Kate imagines another version of the story—for children, and narrated by…

 
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