The Secret History, murder mystery novel by Donna Tartt, published in 1992. Tartt’s first novel, begun when she was still an undergraduate student at Bennington College and bought for a reported $450,000 by Knopf after a bidding war, quickly became a bestseller and made its author a reluctant star. More @Wikipedia
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