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I personally really enjoyed reading Dead Letters. I just love reading novels about twins.

The twin's name were meant to be part of their self constructed, quirky family mythology. A to Z, Ava and Zelda. The first-born would be A for Ava, and the second born would be Z for Zelda. I just love the names Ava and Zelda.

A careless nurse handed their father, Marlon the babies in the wrong order, so that the second born was in plopped into his arms first and that little twin girl was named Ava.

Nadine, Ava's mother who suffers from dementia writes Ava a bitchy email to say that her twin sister had burned to death.

Zelda had burned to death when the barn caught fire and Zelda was trapped inside.

When Ava arrives from Paris back to her family home, she takes in the blackened shell of the barn she wonders what had Zelda been up to in the last twenty-one months. Ava doesn't know if Zelda was in a weird place, she just don't know what to think.

Frankly there's no way Zelda can be dead or Ava would feel it.

Ava's twin sister is missing, maybe even dead. To find her, Ava must follow the clues from A to Z.

The combination of Zelda's letters the last few months and the bizarre of it all feels too much like one of her sister's elaborate plots.

It seems that Ava is in denial that her twin sister is dead after she's been receiving emails from Zelda after the fire.

After everything that's happened Ava is loyal to her twin, even though she hasn't spoken to her for nearly two years.

This novel isn't a thriller but more of a mystery, one that I recommend.