The Witch Elm by Tana French
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Toby is an easy-going young man for whom life always seems to go his way. One night after spending the evening with his friends in the pub, his house is broken into and he is savagely beaten. He spends quite a long time in the hospital recovering, followed by time at home where he realizes that things will definitely not ever be the same again. He has a limp, memory problems, muscle weakness and other neurological problems.
He goes to live with his ailing favorite uncle at the family's Ivy House where he spent many summers with his cousins. A skull is found in a large tree on the property. Detectives arrive, find the entire body, and needless to say the spotlight is then shone on Toby as the murderer for a variety of reasons. Toby and his cousins try to solve the mystery on their own. From here the story weaves between past and present, truth and fiction, in a way that only Tana French can do it. What an enjoyable ride as a reader!
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