From the Bookshelf of Tyler Public Library…

[close] Dolan-Leach’s debut is a story about two estranged, identical 25 yr. old twins, Ava and Zelda, who have had a falling out two years previous over a young man. Ava, furious with her sister and her dysfunctional, alcoholic parents, leaves her family behind and takes off for Paris. Surprised by an overwrought email from her detached mother, Ava is informed that Zelda has perished in a fire. Or has she? Ava can’t quite feel that her twin is dead, plus shortly after her mother’s email, Ava begins receiving cryptic emails from her sister, goading her, and leading her on an alphabetical scavenger hunt of sorts which unleashes all kinds of family secrets. At center-stage throughout the novel are the circumstances leading up to the death (or disappearance of Zelda), and Ava’s subsequent quest to discover and decipher the clues Zelda has left behind for her twin. Dolan-Leach skillfully maintains the tension in this fast-paced psychological novel which will keep readers flipping pages as fast as they can.