Books by Lori Roy and Complete Book Reviews
Lori Roy, Dutton, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95183-4
Set in the mid '60s, Roy's outstanding debut melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place. When Negro boys start phoning Elaine, Arthur Scott's teenage daughter, Arthur decides it's time to leave Detroit and return
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Lori Roy. Dutton, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95396-8
Roy follows her Edgar-winning debut, Bent Road, with a moody, tension-filled tale of intertwined crimes set in late 1950s Detroit. The placid lives of Malina Herze, Julia Wagner, Grace Richardson, and the other women of Alder Avenue are upended,...
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Lori Roy. Dutton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-95507-8
The scents of Lavender and regret are heavy in this suspenseful coming-of-age novel centering on two generations of rural Kentucky women—and those unlucky enough to become enmeshed in their lives—from Edgar-winner Roy (Bent Road). The devastating...
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Lori Roy. Dutton, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-524-74193-8
Lane Fielding, the protagonist of this sinuous slow burn from Edgar-winner Roy (Let Me Die in His Footsteps), never wanted to return to her hometown of Waddell, Fla., but after her divorce, the unemployed single mother had no choice. Now she and her
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Lori Roy. Dutton, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-524-74196-9
In this gripping, gut-wrenching thriller from Edgar-winner Roy (The Disappearing), a member of the local Ku Klux Klan in Simmonsville, Ga., kidnaps 10-year-old Beth, the daughter of a single mother, in a bungled attempt to scare Beth’s Puerto Rican...
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