Donna Tartt writes long, character-led literary novels in which fascination, secrecy and guilt shape the lives of young people over many years. The Secret History is narrated by Richard Papen, who joins an exclusive group of classics students at a Vermont college and learns early in the book that the group has committed murder; the suspense comes from how and why the crime happened and what follows. The Goldfinch begins when Theo Decker survives an explosion at a New York museum and leaves with a small Dutch painting that remains tied to his later life. The Little Friend returns to a child's unresolved murder in Mississippi through the investigations of the victim's younger sister. The Secret History is a natural entry point for dark academia and campus fiction, while The Goldfinch broadens Tartt's work into art, crime and a life followed from adolescence into adulthood. Read more Less
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