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3.93/5.00 The Start of Everything (2013) by Emily Winslow is a dark, literary psychological crime novel (the second in the Keene and Frohmann series, set in Cambridge, England).When a badly decomposed body washes up in a fen outside Cambridge, Detective Inspector Chloe Frohmann and Morris Keene investigate. The victim is quickly identified through letters found in her pocket as Mathilde Oliver, a young autistic university student who had been reported missing months earlier.Told through multiple, shifting perspectives (including emails, interview transcripts, and the unreliable voices of several suspects), the story slowly reveals a tangle of obsession, betrayal, and hidden identities among students and staff at the university. Nothing is quite what it seems, and the truth emerges in fragments as fragile and deceptive as the letters that led to the body.Atmospheric, elegantly written, and deliberately disorienting, it’s a slow-burn literary mystery more interested in damaged minds and moral ambiguity than in traditional police procedural thrills.Genre: Literary psychological thriller / crime fiction (adult).