The heroine also meets family members along the way that she had no idea existed, some of whom help her whilst others play antagonistic roles.

She is joined along the way by Harry and Hugo, her brothers, each of whom is plagued by their own trials and challenges. So Tandy has to go on a journey to put the pieces of her life and her family’s history together. Maud and Malcolm also extinguished chunks of her memories, memories that included the time she spent with a boy she deeply loved. Over time, it becomes clear that her parents’ experiments did more than simply submerge her emotions. The girl has to reintegrate back into society, a task that proves easier said than done when she abandons her regiment of pills and begins to contend with the feelings her medication had suppressed for so long. The Confessions series initially follows Tandy around as she attempts to make sense of her family’s history. She puts her considerable skills to the task of finding the person who killed her parents, a task that begins to reveal to her dangerous affairs with which her family was involved. No longer subjected to the nefarious machinations of her family, Tandy begins to emerge. When Maud and Malcolm Angel are murdered, a dam essentially bursts. As it turns out, Tandy had been the subject of intense experimentation at the hands of her parents.Īnd they had more or less succeeded in turning her into a robotic, emotionless figure of nearly unrivaled intelligence. And Tandy had no reason to doubt that narrative.īut then they died and she realized that she could not trust anyone, not even herself. To prying eyes, her parents were just savage perfections that pushed their children to excel in all fields. Even with this unexpected turn of events, Tandy shouldn’t have had much reason to put her own mind to the task of solving her parents’ murder.īut Tandy Angel’s life was hardly a happy one. The children were the last people to see their parents alive, a fact that makes them persons of interest in the investigation launched by the police. Any other child would be too busy mourning such a tragedy to worry about much else. Her parents, Malcolm and Maud, have been murdered. The book introduced readers to Tandy Angel, a sixteen-year-old girl with a problem on her hands. The Confessions series began publication in 2012 with ‘Confessions of a Murder Suspect’. The books follow the exploits of a young girl who must unravel the secrets of her deranged family. Confessions is a series of Young Adult Mystery novels written by James Patterson.

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