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Ill will

Dan Chaon

2017461 pagesabout 7–11 hours
2017
first published
  • 2017Ballantine Books · 461 pages · ENGISBN 9780345476043
  • 2018Ballantine Books · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9780345476050

"In 1983, Dustin Tillman's family--his parents and his aunt and uncle--were murdered in a shocking massacre. His foster brother, Rusty, was convicted of the crime, in a trial that was steeped in the "Satanic Cult" paranoia of the 1980s. Thirty years later, Rusty's conviction is overturned, and suddenly Dustin, now a psychologist, must question whether his testimony that imprisoned his brother was accurate. When one of his patients, an ex-cop, gets him deeply involved in a series of unsolved murders, Dustin's happy suburban life starts to unravel, as his uncertainties about his past and present life begin to merge"--

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