Books by Stephanie Gayle and Complete Book Reviews
Stephanie Gayle, Author . Morrow $23.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-06-123629-7
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hort story writer Gayle makes her debut as a novelist with this chronicle of a young, liberal New York lawyer who starts over in the South. The daughter of a famous civil rights champion, Natalie Goldberg stuns her parents by moving to Bibb County,
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Stephanie Gayle. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (284p) ISBN 978-1-63388-078-8
Set in 1997, Gayle’s well-written but tame first mystery introduces Thomas Lynch, who has left his action-packed job as a New York City detective to become the police chief of rural Idyll, Conn. But Idyll turns out to be far from idyllic for this...
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Stephanie Gayle. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-63388-357-4
The wintertime disappearance of six-year-old Cody Forrand in rural Idyll, Conn., drives Gayle’s absorbing sequel to 2015’s Idyll Threats. Former NYPD homicide detective Thomas Lynch, the state’s only gay police chief, must act fact fast, since Cody...
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Stephanie Gayle. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-63388-482-3
Set in 1999, Gayle’s first-rate third Thomas Lynch novel (after 2017’s Idyll Fears) finds the former New York City homicide detective still settling in as police chief of the small town of Idyll, Conn. Lynch has a high-strung station house to win...
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