Table of Contents
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
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Excerpt from “The River Road” from
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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.
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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