Julia Dahl Books

A thrilling, utterly absorbing crime novel . it jolts the heart. Megan Abbott

Fresh out of journalism school, Rebekah Roberts is working for the New York Tribune, trying to make a name for herself. Assigned a story about the murder of a woman in Brooklyn, Rebekah finds a case from inside a closed, secretive Hasidic Jewish community - the same Brooklyn neighbourhood her estranged mother was brought up in. Shocked to discover that the victim is set to be buried without an autopsy, Rebekah knows there is a story to uncover, but getting to the truth won't be easy - in the cloistered world her mother rebelled against, it's clear she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep, most of all from an outsider.

New York City tabloid reporter Rebekah Roberts knows almost nothing about the mother who abandoned her as an infant. Aviva Kagan was just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a college boy from Florida - and then disappeared. When Rebekah hears about a young Hasidic mother found dead in her bathtub in upstate New York, she thinks there might be a story in it. And as she looks closer, she discovers that the woman once knew Aviva's younger brother, Sam. Rebekah realizes she might finally be in a position to meet her mother, but the more she learns about the woman's death, the more she begins to fear that Sam might be a ticking time bomb - whose anger is aimed at the strict Jewish community he left behind. In the sequel to her Edgar Award-nominated Invisible City, Julia Dahl has created another powerful novel, at once an examination of the demons we inherit and a taut mystery that will grip readers from the opening page to the stunning conclusion

A heart-wrenching thriller following a young woman who refuses to be a victim in a world where everything we do is documented online.

Rebeka, mladá novinárka, sa rozhodne sama pátrať po vrahovi zavraždenej chasidskej ženy, keď zistí, že medzi newyorskou políciou a ortodoxnou židovskou komunitou v Brooklyne platí nepísaná dohoda, že čo sa tam stane, si komunita vyrieši sama a polícia do toho nebude zasahovať. Hrozí, že vražda mladej ženy ostane nevyriešená a vrah unikne bez trestu. Rebeku láka prostredie ortodoxnej židovskej komunity, lebo vie, že niekde tam žije aj jej matka, ktorá ju ako bábätko opustila...