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I read everything Ivy Pochoda writes. Her capture of the complexities, diversities, and insanities of today's life and culture is next to none. I loved Sing Her Down. The world will too." -Michael Connelly, author of Desert StarNo Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-winning author of These Women.Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at th...

I read everything Ivy Pochoda writes. Her capture of the complexities, diversities, and insanities of today's life and culture is next to none. I loved Sing Her Down. The world will too." -Michael Connelly, author of Desert StarNo Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-winning author of These Women.Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at th...

I read everything Ivy Pochoda writes. Her capture of the complexities, diversities, and insanities of today's life and culture is next to none. I loved Sing Her Down. The world will too." -Michael Connelly, author of Desert StarNo Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-winning author of These Women.Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at th...

Ein Serienkiller geht um in West Adams, einem zwielichtigen Stadtteil von Los Angeles. 17 Frauen sind ihm zwischen 1999 und 2014 zum Opfer gefallen, doch das Police Department interessiert sich nicht besonders für die Toten, die immerzu als diese Frauen bezeichnet werden. Diese Frauen an den Straßenecken ... diese Frauen in den Bars ... diese Frauen, die nicht aufhören, Fragen zu stellen ... diese Frauen, die bekommen haben, was sie verdienen....

A Recommended Book From The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * People * Marie Claire * Vulture * The Minneapolis Star-Tribune * LitHub * Crime Reads * PopSugarFrom the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street comes a serial killer story like you've never seen before—a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los A...

The wife. These women live by countless unspoken rules. Maybe it is only these rules which keep them alive. When their neighbourhood is rocked by two murders, the careful existence these women have built for themselves begins to crumble. 'Absolutely superb, a painful, atmospheric novel about women living on the margins in LA.

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Red Hook, Brooklyn/New York: ein Arbeiterviertel kurz vor der Gentrifizierung. Es ist Sommer. Die Hitze drückt. Aus Langeweile beschließen die beiden Teenager June und Val, auf einem Plastikfloß aufs Meer hinauszupaddeln. In der Schwärze der Nacht gehen sie verloren, und nur Val überlebt. Halb bewusstlos und verletzt wird sie an Land gespült. Das tragische Ereignis geht nicht spurlos an den Bewohnern des Viertels vorbei. Unter ihnen Cree, ein ...

A Recommended Book From The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * People * Marie Claire * Vulture * The Minneapolis Star-Tribune * LitHub * Crime Reads * PopSugarFrom the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street comes a serial killer story like you've never seen before—a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los A...

A Recommended Book From The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * People * Marie Claire * Vulture * The Minneapolis Star-Tribune * LitHub * Crime Reads * PopSugarFrom the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street comes a serial killer story like you've never seen before—a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los A...

Six entwined contemporary Los Angeles lives are a canvas for violence, heartache and yearning, in what Michael Connelly describes as a piece of work 'destined to be a classic LA novel'.

Als ein Teenager aus der mysteriösen Heiler-Kommune seines Vaters in der Mojave-Wüste flchtet, setzt er damit eine spektakuläre Reihe von Ereignissen in Gang, an deren Ende sich die Wege von mehreren Personen kreuzen, die allesamt ihrer Vergangenheit entfliehen wollen. Da ist der Mörder Ren, der in L. A. seine Mutter sucht, Britt, die ein dunkles Geheimnis mit sich trägt, Tony, ein unglücklicher Anwalt kurz vor dem Nervenzusammenbruch, und da ...

When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles. There’s Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to L.A. in search of his mother. Owen and James are teenage twins who live in a desert commune, where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There’s Brit...

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Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-old June and Val take a pink plastic raft out onto the bay.But on the water, in the humid night, the girls disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore, bruised and unconscious, in the weeds. The shocking event will echo through a group of unforgettable characters, includ...

Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue collar neighbourhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects, and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-old June and Val are looking for some fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles. Val wants to do something wild and a little crazy: take a raft out onto the bay.But out on the water, as the bright light of day gives way to darkness, ...

In this beguiling first novel, Pochoda brings an acute eye and vivid imagination to the ordinary details of life. The result is magic itself.--Rebecca Johnson, author of "And Sometimes Why.