title: Sister: A Novel
author:  Rosamund Lupton 
description: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000692471"><strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2011</strong></a>: When the body of Beatrices beloved younger sister, Tess, is discovered in an abandoned building in Hyde Park and ruled a suicide, Beatrice knows the police have made a mistake. Shes certain her sister was murdered. Determined to uncover the truth, Beatrice impulsively begins to hunt for clues on her own. So begins Rosamund Luptons stunning debut, <em>Sister</em>, at once an engrossing thriller and a powerful meditation on the bonds of family. Writing her story as a letter to Tess, Beatrice gradually connects the strange, varied occurrences leading up to Tesss death--Tesss pregnancy; a trial drug from a pharmaceutical company; a man who may or may not have been a figment of Tesss imagination. Beatrices former life falls apart as her search veers toward obsession, and she realizes she might pay a terrible price for the truth. An adrenaline-filled psychological thriller, <em>Sister</em>s emotional impact comes from Luptons heartrending portrait of the love between Beatrice and Tess. <em>--Lynette Mong</em>
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  THREE HOURS
  
  Contents
  
    1. [PART ONE](text_part0006_split_000.html#5N3C0-0bae0da2f5da4368aabae4ca03d6a609)
  
      1. Chapter 1
      2. Chapter 2
      3. Chapter 3
      4. Chapter 4
      5. Chapter 5
      6. Chapter 6
      7. Chapter 7
    2. PART TWO
  
      1. Chapter 8
      2. Chapter 9
      3. Chapter 10
      4. Chapter 11
      5. Chapter 12
      6. Chapter 13
      7. Chapter 14
      8. Chapter 15
      9. Chapter 16
      10. Chapter 17
      11. Chapter 18
      12. Chapter 19
    3. PART THREE
  
      1. Chapter 20
    4. Acknowledgements
  
  About the Author
  
  Rosamund Lupton is the author of _Sister,_ a BBC Radio 4 “Book at Bedtime”, a
  _Sunday Times_ and _New York Times_ bestseller, winner of the Strand Magazine
  critics award and the Richard and Judy Bookclub Readers’ Choice Award. Her
  next two books _Afterwards_ and _The Quality of Silence_ (also a Richard and
  Judy pick) were S _unday Times_ bestsellers. Her books have been published in
  over thirty languages.
  
   _Three Hours_
  
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