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Автор Эрин Келли

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

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Copyright © Erin Kelly, 2009

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A Pamela Dorman Book / Viking

Excerpt from “The River Road” from The Drowned Book by Sean

O’Brien. Published by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2007.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters,

places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s

imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual

persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or

locales is entirely coincidental.

LIBRARYOF CONGRESS CATALOGINGIN PUBLICATION DATA

Kelly, Erin, 1976-

The poison tree : a novel / Erin Kelly. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-47539-3

College students—Fiction. 2.

Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. Family secrets—Fiction.

Murder—Fiction. 5. London (England)—Fiction. 6. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PR6111. E498P65 2011

823’. 92—dc22 2010024260

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This book is dedicated to the father of my child

The way we’d go on summer nights

In the times we were children