WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE“[A] suspense-filled page-turner.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer"A touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision.” —Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird, BluebirdA Best Book of theYearWall Street Journal *

Winner of the LA Times Book PrizeTwo families.One desperate to remember, the other to forget.Will the truth burn them both?'Masterful.' Ruth Ware'A searing examination of racial and family politics that is also an immaculately constructed whodunit.' Daily Telegraph, Summer Reads'Writing a page-turner about racial polit...

A stunning, edgy debut introducing Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of L.A. with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart.Juniper Song knows secrets–how to keep them and how to search them out. As a girl, noir fiction was her favorite escape, and Philip Marlowe has always been her literary idol. So when her friend Luke asks her to investigate a possible affair between his father and a young employee, Juniper (or "Song" as her friends call her) finds a...

Sono passati quasi trent'anni dalle sommosse del '92, ma Los Angeles si trova ancora a fare i conti con agitazioni interne e manifestazioni. Shawn Matthews non ha più energia né rabbia: un evento drammatico ha segnato la sua esistenza, lo ha lasciato svuotato, desideroso solo di tenere a bada il dolore dei ricordi. Grace Park, invece, è occupata a gestire la farmacia di famiglia, nella comunità coreana della San Fernando Valley. Sua sorella Miriam vive in città e ha interrotto ogni rapport...

'Compelling from first to last page.' DENISE MINAMeet Juniper Song, an under employed, twenty-something, Raymond-Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown LA.When a friend asks Song to carry out surveillance on his father, she figures she doesn't have anything better to do - plus she gets to indulge her Philip Marlowe fantasies. But barely half a day into playing private eye someone has knocked her unconscious and left a dead body in the trunk of...

'Nathanael West and Raymond Chandler would be proud.' LA TimesJuniper Song has a new gig: apprenticed to a private investigation firm in downtown LA, she's racking up hours following cheating spouses.When a NY artist hires her to keep an eye on her long-distance boyfriend in LA, Song has no problem tailing the guy - until a panicked late-night phone call has her racing to the iconic Roosevelt Hotel. There, in the aftermath of a wi...

'A gritty, politically charged mystery.' LA TimesJuniper Song - private detective - has a talent for surveillance, and for knowing when a client isn't telling her the whole story.Rubina Gasparian, Song's latest client, is worried about her cousin, who just happens to be carrying her baby as a surrogate. Something tells her she's been hired to do more than just follow a heavily pregnant twenty-six-year-old around LA, and soon enough, Song finds her...

Als die Polizei einen unbewaffneten schwarzen Teenager erschießt, brechen in Los Angeles Unruhen aus, die Erinnerungen an den Fall Rodney King wachrufen. Inmitten dieser aufgeheizten Atmosphäre müssen sich zwei Familien ihrer Vergangenheit stellen. Grace Park, 27, arbeitet in der familieneigenen Apotheke, ihre aus Korea eingewanderten Eltern haben ihr immer ein behütetes Leben geboten. Doch dann erfährt Grace, dass ihre Mutter vor dreißig Jahren Ava Matthews erschoss – sie hatte die junge ...

“With Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeles’s violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understanding—of the pull of generational violence and its enduring devastation, but also of the power of human grace against all odds. It’s a touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision that tore a hole through an entire city.” —Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird, Bluebird

Two families.One desperate to remember, the other to forget.Will the truth burn them both?'Fresh, thoughtful, thrilling.' Ian RankinGrace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city - Los Angeles - but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister's estrangement from th...

Book 1 in the Juniper Song Trilogy.Meet Juniper Song, an under employed, twenty-something, Raymond-Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown LA.When a friend asks Song to carry out surveillance on his father, she figures she doesn't have anything better to do - plus she gets to indulge her Philip Marlowe fantasies. But barely half a day into playing private eye someone has knocked her unconscious and left a dead body in the trunk of her car.

Book 2 in the Juniper Song Trilogy.Juniper Song has a new gig: apprenticed to a private investigation firm in downtown LA, she's racking up hours following cheating spouses.When a NY artist hires her to keep an eye on her long-distance boyfriend in LA, Song has no problem tailing the guy - until a panicked late-night phone call has her racing to the iconic Roosevelt Hotel. There, in the aftermath of a wild party in its top floor suite, she finds only two people left: the boyf...