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Stephanie Kupchynsky, the step-sister of Rachel Rear, disappeared when the author was a teenager - and it would be seven years before her body would be found; and yet another fourteen years before two dedicated police officers were, at last, able to coax a confession from her killer. A powerful and moving account, Chained to the Sky reconstructs the dark and serpentine path of Stephanie's long-unsolved murder and explores, on a personal level, the experience of living in the shadow of that legacy. This book is, in part, Rachel's meticulous reconstruction of events - how a beautiful violinist and teacher fled an abusive relationship and made a new start for herself in Rochester, New York; how police corruption and dysfunction contributed to the crime going unsolved for over two decades; and the terrible cost of those hard decades was to Stephanie's family and loved ones. But Rachel also discovered echoes and parallels between Stephanie's life and her own, which included physical and emotional abuse at the hands of their respective fathers, and how that damage impacted their future relationships with men, and their perceptions of themselves. There's an obsessive quality to both directions of inquiry - the crime, and the costs of the crime - which introduces a writer of uncommon talent.