Julia Dahl
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, The Missing Hours is a novel about obsession, privilege, and the explosive consequences of one violent act. From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands of Instagram followers, and a spot in NYU's freshman class. But look closer, and things are messier: her parents are separating, she's just been humiliated by a sleazy documentary, and her...
Author
Series
Rebekah Roberts novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her mother, who might still be living in the Hasidic community...
3) Run you down
Author
Series
Rebekah Roberts novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Roman Grady is the sole reporter for the local newspaper in a tiny Hudson Valley town - a town so small that every store opening and DUI is considered newsworthy. But when Roman's longtime girlfriend, Ashley, the mother of his four-year-old son, is found dead, he realizes he had no idea what was really going on in her life. What was Ashley doing at the cliffside home of her troubled ex-girlfriend? And why does it seem like everyone in town suddenly...
5) Conviction
Author
Series
Rebekah Roberts novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating when a Jewish man convicted 22 years earlier for the brutal murders of a Crown Heights black family writes to her, pleading his innocence, journalist Rebekah Roberts is challenged to infiltrate Brooklyn's insular Hasidic community, where she is targeted by a determined killer.