**“This electrifying novel…[is] a gripping mystery with a timely, unnerving message—you won’t be able to look away.”—People, "Book of the Week"“A book so good you can’t look away.”--O Magazine, “Best Books of Summer”Two-time Edgar Award–winning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century’s worth of hate.**On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flye...

**Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel"Don't be fooled by the novel's apparent simplicity: What emerges from the surface is a tale of extraordinary emotional power, one of longstanding pain set against the pulsating drumbeat of social change."-Sarah Weinman, NPR.org**For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. But when the 1967 Detroit riots frighten him even more than his Kansas p...

In the spellbinding and suspenseful Let Me Die in His Footsteps, Edgar Award winner for Best Novel, author Lori Roy wrests from a Southern town the secrets of two families touched by an evil that has passed between generations.On a dark Kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. Everyone knows Hollerans don't go near Baines, not since Joseph Carl was buried two dec...

Pendant leurs vingt ans de vie commune à Detroit, Celia Scott a regardé son mari, Arthur, taire les secrets entourant la mort de sa soeur Eve. Mais en 1967, les émeutes raciales l’effraient plus encore que son passé et Arthur décide de retourner vivre dans la ferme familiale où il a grandi, sur Bent Road, à l’orée d’une toute petite ville, au fin fond du Kansas.Malgré les fantômes qui hantent l’endroit, Arthur se coule facilement dans cette vie rurale, à l’inverse de Celia, qui subi...

**Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Best Books of 2018Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy spins a twisted, atmospheric tale about a small Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away.**When Lane Fielding fled her isolated Florida hometown after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she swore she'd never return. But twenty years later, newly divorced and with two daughters in tow, she finds herself tending bar at the local dive and living with...

Nominated for a 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel“You won’t be able to put [it] down.” —Ladies Home JournalLori Roy follows her Edgar® Award-winning debut novel, Bent Road, with a spellbinding tale of suspense set against the crumbling façade of a once-respectable Detroit neighborhood in 1958.The ladies of Alder Avenue—Grace, Julia, and Malina—struggle to care for one another amidst a city ripe with conflict, but lif...

« La richesse de la narration et la musique de cette voix sont aussi hypnotiques que le parfum de lavande qui imprègne l’histoire. »The New York Times Book ReviewTout le monde sait qu’il n’y a rien après les champs de lavande des Holleran, si ce n’est la propriété des Baine. Et tout le monde sait aussi que Juna est à l’origine de la haine entre les deux familles.Tout a commencé en 1936 dans la petite ville du Kentucky. Avant...

Lorsque, à la fin du lycée, Lane Fielding a fui Waddell, sa ville natale au fin fond de la Floride, pour l'anonymat de New York, elle s’est juré de ne jamais y revenir. Pourtant, vingt ans plus tard, fraîchement divorcée et mère de deux filles, elle se retrouve contrainte de retourner vivre chez ses parents, sur la plantation historique de la famille. Un lieu hanté par le passé et les crimes sinistres de son père, ancien directeur d'une maison de correction.La disparition de sa fill...

Detroit, 1958. En ce mois de juin, dans le quartier ouvrier blanc d’Adler Avenue, l’atmosphère est pesante. Les grandes usines où tous les hommes sont employés commencent à fermer et, plus inquiétant encore, des gens de couleur s’installent dans le quartier.Les femmes d’Adler Avenue mènent une vie bien ordonnée : elles s’occupent de leur foyer et des activités de la paroisse, tandis que leurs maris travaillent à l’usine. Cependant, sous cette façade de perfection, nombre de secrets...

When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself.Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain the “second sight” foretold by family legend and fulfill her destiny. Instead, the swamp serves up dangers greater than the gators lurking on Halfway Creek....

**“This electrifying novel…[is] a gripping mystery with a timely, unnerving message—you won’t be able to look away.”—People, "Book of the Week"“A book so good you can’t look away.”--O Magazine, “Best Books of Summer”Two-time Edgar Award–winning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century’s worth of hate.**On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flye...

**Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Best Books of 2018Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy spins a twisted, atmospheric tale about a small Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away.**When Lane Fielding fled her isolated Florida hometown after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she swore she'd never return. But twenty years later, newly divorced and with two daughters in tow, she finds herself tending bar at the local dive and living with...