The next novel by Donna Tartt, bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner from the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), THE TINY Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.

The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day just a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later on Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family members remains devastated. So that it is usually that Robin’s sister Harriet-unnervingly shiny, insufferably decided, and unduly influenced from the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson–sets out to unmask his killer. Aided just by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s background of loss. Filled up with hairpin turns of story and “a bustling, absurd humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Reserve Review), THE TINY Friend is a function of myriad enchantments with a author of prodigious talent.