On a sunny summer afternoon by the lake, Cora Bender stabs a complete stranger to death. Why? What would cause this quiet, kind young mother to commit such a startling act of violence in front of her family and friends?

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An international bestseller by the noveliat hailed as Germany's Patricia Highsmith, The Sinner is a dark, spellbinding psychological thriller, where the truth is to be questioned at every turn.