Was it... Bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity? Whatever the cause—and everyone has a theory—it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, “I didn’t do it. You’ve got to get me out of here.” Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that's so depraved murder is the least of their crimes?…
"The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen This intriguing multi-perspective thriller from the author of House of Glass features two twins, separated at birth: one seeking to uncover the truth about why they other is currently being held in a psychiatric unit, accused of murder. Georgia, the detained sister, presents as a very unreliable narrator of her own story. As she tells herself, and therefore the reader: You are supposedly in a dissociative state, which you learned about years ago because you wrote a twenty-page paper on it for a college psychology class… It turned out to be the most important thing you learned in college. That paper may have saved your life. Georgia was adopted by a wealthy family and has grown up to be a glamorous wedding planner and socialite. Mandy, her twin, has lived a harder life until now. She’d seen the headlines about this very Southern scandal but had no idea she would soon be sucked in. “Escapist and entertaining,” declares the Southern Review of Books."
