The Witch Elm: A Novel

"Tana French’s Witch Elm looks like a murder mystery – a brutal beating, a skull in a tree, etc. – but it is really a deeply subtle book about privilege: how clueless, apparently decent guys can float through life unaware of the injustices around them, sometimes even ones they have committed. “One gets into the habit of being oneself,” says one character. “It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.”"