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Rebekah RobertsSeries

This series follows Rebekah, a New York City reporter delving into the mysteries of the Brooklyn Hasidic community. Her search for her mother plunges her deep into a hidden world of tradition, family ties, and unexpected revelations. The narratives blend suspenseful investigative journalism with profound explorations of identity.

Conviction
Run You Down
Invisible City

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  1. 1

    Invisible City

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.6(8)Add rating

    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.

    Invisible City
  2. 2

    Run You Down

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.6(19)Add rating

    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

    Run You Down
  3. 3

    Conviction

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    4.1(15)Add rating

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

    Conviction