Tartt, Donna

Richard is accepted into an elite group of college students and discovers the secret that binds them together.

"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother, a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld"--Provided by publisher.

Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue.

Richard Papen becomes embroiled in a society of brutal and deadly secrets from which he is unable to escape when an elite group of students from the prestigious Hampden College accept him into their group.

Growing up in a small Mississippi town in a family haunted by the murder of her brother, Robin, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes lives in a world of her imagination, until, at the age of twelve, she decides to find Robin's murderer and exact her revenge.

Richard Papen arrives at Hampden College where he becomes involved with five Greek scholars. But all is not as it appears and Richard soon discovers the terrifying secret of an ancient rite and a brutal death.

"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother, a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld"--Provided by publisher.

Harriet, just a baby when her nine-year-old brother was murdered, decides at the age of twelve she is tired of living with the repercussions of his death and sets out to exact revenge on the man she believes to be the killer.