"Once Upon a River" by Diane Setterfield, Atria/Emily Bestler. 480 pp. $28 Diane Setterfield haunts familiar ground in "Once Upon a River," an eerily mystic tale of a mute child who captivates the local townspeople after she's seemingly brought back from the dead.The author of "The Thirteenth Tale" and "Bellman & Black" begins this account on a winter solstice more than a hundred years ago. A near-drowned stranger arrives at a rural inn, grievously [...]
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