![]() ![]() ![]() Tartt, who was born in Mississippi, has set her new book in her home state, in a shabby riverside town called Alexandria. Like her best-selling 1992 début, "The Secret History," this long-awaited second novel takes the shape of a murder mystery, but it's not really about a death at all. And, by that point, you suspect that Tartt doesn't care, either. But if you're startled when you finally learn the secret of the title, it isn't because this information comes as a surprise but because, by the time you get to page 543, you're so engrossed in just about everything but the murder that you no longer care who dunnit. Donna Tartt's languidly atmospheric new novel, "The Little Friend" (Knopf $26), looks as if it's going to be a mystery: it follows the search for the killer of nine-year-old Robin Cleve Dufresnes, who was found hanging from a tree in his back yard on Mother's Day. ![]()
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