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Bloomsbury presents Catch the Sparrow by Rachel Rear read by Julia Locascio
The gripping story of a young womans murder unsolved for over two decades brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister
Growing up Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynskys disappearance The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship on Marthas Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester NY She was at the height of her lifein a relationship with a man she hoped to marry and close to her students and her family And then one morning she was gone
Around Rochestera region which has spawned such serial killers as Arthur Shawcross and the Double Initial killerStephanies disappearance was just a familiar sort of news item But Rachel had more reason than most to be haunted by this particular story of a missing woman Rachels mother had married Stephanies father after the crime and Rachel grew up in the shadow of her stepsisters legacy
In Catch the Sparrow Rachel Rear writes a compulsively readable and unerringly poignant reconstruction of the cases dark and serpentine path across more than two decades Obsessively cataloging the crime and its costs drawing intimately closer to the details than any journalist could she reveals how a dysfunctional justice system laid the groundwork for Stephanies murder and stymied the investigation for more than twenty years and what those hard years meant for the lives of Stephanies family and loved ones Startling unputdownable and deeply moving Catch the Sparrow is a retelling of a crime like no other
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