Long Bright River

"Long Bright River" er Liz Moores barske, gribende og rørende krimi om en kvindelig politibetjent jagt efter en sexmorder og sin søster, før hun bliver det næste offer. Mickey Fitzpatrick kender Kensington Avenue i Philadelphia indgående som politibetjent i området gennem mange år. Det er her stofferne og de prostituerede bliver solgt. Hun kender de prostitueredes navne, deres historie og hun kan se, når de er desperate efter det næste fix. Hun er blevet vant til at finde pigerne døde af overdosis. Men hver gang hun ser nogen liggende på den kolde jord, beder hun til det ikke er hendes søster Kacey. Da en række sexarbejderes lig dukker op på gaden, begraver politiinspektøren hurtigt historien. Den slags mord generer alligevel ikke særlig meget presse. Men Mickey bliver besat af sagen, og vil gøre alt for at fange gerningsmanden, før Kacey bliver det næste offer. Liz Moore modtog fortjent en række flotte anmeldelser for "Long Bright River", som er en uafrystelig fortælling om en skræmmende seriemorder og to søstres ubrydelige bånd.

"Long Bright River" er Liz Moores barske, gribende og rørende krimi om en kvindelig politibetjent jagt efter en sexmorder og sin søster, før hun bliver det næste offer. Mickey Fitzpatrick kender Kensington Avenue i Philadelphia indgående som politibetjent i området gennem mange år. Det er her stofferne og de prostituerede bliver solgt. Hun kender de prostitueredes navne, deres historie og hun kan se, når de er desperate efter det næste fix. Hun er blevet vant til at finde pigerne døde af overdosis. Men hver gang hun ser nogen liggende på den kolde jord, beder hun til det ikke er hendes søster Kacey. Da en række sexarbejderes lig dukker op på gaden, begraver politiinspektøren hurtigt historien. Den slags mord generer alligevel ikke særlig meget presse. Men Mickey bliver besat af sagen, og vil gøre alt for at fange gerningsmanden, før Kacey bliver det næste offer. Liz Moore modtog fortjent en række flotte anmeldelser for "Long Bright River", som er en uafrystelig fortælling om en skræmmende seriemorder og to søstres ubrydelige bånd.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE PEACOCK TV SERIES STARRING AMANDA SEYFRIED ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR-- BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF THE WOODS AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late. Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate. "[Moore's] careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates Long Bright River from entertaining page-turner to a book that makes you want to call someone you love." - The New York Times Book Review "This is police procedural and a thriller par excellence, one in which the city of Philadelphia itself is a character (think Boston and Mystic River ). But it's also a literary tale narrated by a strong woman with a richly drawn personal life - powerful and genre-defying." - People "A thoughtful, powerful novel by a writer who displays enormous compassion for her characters. Long Bright River is an outstanding crime novel... I absolutely loved it." --Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times- bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE PEACOCK TV SERIES STARRING AMANDA SEYFRIED ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR-- BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF THE WOODS AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late. Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate. "[Moore's] careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates Long Bright River from entertaining page-turner to a book that makes you want to call someone you love." - The New York Times Book Review "This is police procedural and a thriller par excellence, one in which the city of Philadelphia itself is a character (think Boston and Mystic River ). But it's also a literary tale narrated by a strong woman with a richly drawn personal life - powerful and genre-defying." - People "A thoughtful, powerful novel by a writer who displays enormous compassion for her characters. Long Bright River is an outstanding crime novel... I absolutely loved it." --Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times- bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

Einst waren sie unzertrennlich, seit fünf Jahren sprechen sie nicht mehr miteinander, doch die eine wacht insgeheim über die andere. Jetzt aber ist die Lage bedrohlich geworden: Mickey, Streifenpolizistin in Philadelphia, findet ihre drogenabhängige Schwester Kacey nicht mehr auf den Straßen der Blocks, die sie kontrolliert und auf denen Kacey für ihren Konsum anschaffen geht. Gleichzeitig erschüttert eine Reihe von Morden an jungen Prostituierten die von Perspektivlosigkeit und Drogenmissbrauch geplagte Stadt. In ihrem enorm spannenden Roman erzählt Liz Moore die Familiengeschichte von Mickey und Kacey und deren Entfremdung parallel zur Geschichte der Jagd nach einem Frauenmörder, die auch Mickey in große Gefahr bringt. Zugleich entwirft Liz Moore in diesem großen Roman das umwerfend authentische Porträt einer Stadt und einer Gesellschaft in der Krise.