Aviva Kagan was a just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from is a NYC tabloid reporter named Rebekah Roberts. And Rebekah isn't sure she wants her mother back in her life. But when a man from the ultra-Orthodox enclave of Roseville, N.Y. contacts Rebekah about his young wife's mysterious death, she is drawn back into Aviva's world. Pessie Goldin's body was found in her bathtub, and while her parents want to believe it was an accident, her husband is certain she was murdered. Once she starts poking around, Rebekah encounters a whole society of people who have wandered "off the path" of ultra-Orthodox Judaism-just like her mother. But some went with dark secrets, and rage at the insular community they left behind. In the sequel to her Edgar Award finalist Invisible City, Julia Dahl has created a taut mystery that is both a window into a secretive culture and an exploration of the demons we inherit.
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Julia Dahl is a journalist specializing in crime and criminal justice. She has worked as a reporter for CBS News and the New York Post, and her feature articles have appeared in Mental Floss, Salon, Columbia Journalism Review, and many others. Her first novel, Invisible City, was named one of the Boston Globe‘s Best Books of 2014 and was a finalist for an Edgar Award and a Mary Higgins Clark Award. She was born in Fresno, California, to a Lutheran father and Jewish mother and now lives in Brooklyn.
Andi Arndt is a professional voice actor, the winner of a 2017 Audie Award for Best Romance, and winner of two Earphones Awards.