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Until She Comes Home

A Suspense Thriller

Lori Roy

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English
Plume
27 May 2014
Following Lori Roy's Edgar -Award winning debut, Bent Road, is Until She Comes Home, a novel of spellbinding suspense in which a pair of seemingly unrelated murders crumbles the fa ade of a once-respectable Detroit neighborhood.

Nominated for a 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel

""You won't be able to put

it

down."" -Ladies Home Journal

Lori Roy follows her Edgar

Award-winning debut novel, Bent Road, with a spellbinding tale of suspense set against the crumbling fa ade of a once-respectable Detroit neighborhood in 1958.

The ladies of Alder Avenue-Grace, Julia, and Malina-struggle to care for one another amidst a city ripe with conflict, but life erupts when child-like Elizabeth disappears. A black woman was recently murdered at the factory where their husbands work, and the ladies fear that crime may foretell Elizabeth's fate. When an unmistakable sound rings out, will the vicious secrets that bind them all be revealed?
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Imprint:   Plume
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   268g
ISBN:   9780142180983
ISBN 10:   014218098X
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lori Roy is the author of Bent Road, winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel; Until She Comes Home, finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; Let Me Die in His Footsteps, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; and most recently, The Disappearing. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with her family.

Reviews for Until She Comes Home: A Suspense Thriller

Shocking . . . heartbreaking . . . In Lori Roy's crime novel, tiny tremors in the life of late 1950s Detroit warn of the cataclysms to come. -The New York Times Book Review You won't be able to put [it] down. -Ladies' Home Journal Backtrack[s] into the past with thrilling results. -Family Circle Rich . . . Lyrical . . . Roy delivers a timeless story that gives shape to those secrets and tragedies from which some people never recover. -McClatchy-Tribune News Service Lori Roy has entered the arena of great American authors shared by Williams, Faulkner and Lee. -BookReporter A tour-de-force of mood and suspense. -Bookpage Outstanding. . . . Roy's language pulses with so much subtle tension . . . exposing the characters' true selves and their tragic secrets. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Until She Comes Home is a suspenseful, atmospheric work of crime fiction as well as a clear-eyed look at relationships between the sexes and the races in mid- 20th century America. . . . [S]ecrets -- some born of fear, some of kindness, some of rage -- power this mystery to a surprising and satisfying end. -Tampa Bay Times Extraordinary. Compelling. And beautifully, quietly, disturbing. Everyone has a secret--and at every second, you fear something terrible is about to happen. These gorgeously drawn characters and their mysteries will haunt you long after you turn the last page. Lori Roy is an incredible talent. -Hank Phillippi Ryan, winner of the Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards Roy makes every detail count as she builds her characters and gently but inexorably leads them to reexamine their own lives. -Booklist, starred review A beautifully written, at times lyrical, study of a disintegrating community. -Kirkus, starred review Leaves readers guessing until the end. -Library Journal A moody, tension-filled tale of intertwined crimes. -Publishers Weekly


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