A Better Ending: A Brother's Twenty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister's Death

“Haunting and heartfelt...meticulously recounted with powerful suspense and hard-earned wisdom.” —Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road

A propulsive and “deeply human” (The Minnesota Star Tribune) memoir about a brother’s decades-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister’s tragic death—and his own journey to forgiveness and closure.

On a summer evening in 1974, Jim Thomson arrived home from a baseball game to the news that his younger sister, Eileen, had taken he...