Run you down : a novel

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Run you down : a novel

Author:

Dahl, Julia, 1977- author.

ISBN:

9781427260949

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication:

New York, NY : Macmillan Audio, [2015]

Physical Description:

7 audio discs (approximately 510 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Rebekah Roberts novels ;

Number in series:

V. 2.

General Note:

Title from web page.

Summary:

Just weeks after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, Aviva, a Hasidic Jewfrom Brooklyn, left her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to herreligion. Neither Rebekah nor her father has heard from Aviva since. But now, as a journalist in New York City, Rebekah has developed connections of her own in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn.

Subject(s):

Jewish women -- Fiction.

Women journalists -- Fiction.

Hasidim -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Jewish families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Family life -- Fiction.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

New York (State) -- New York.

Genre:

Audiobooks on CD.

Detective and mystery fiction.

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Summary

Aviva Kagan was a just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from is a NYC tabloid reporter named Rebekah Roberts. And Rebekah isn't sure she wants her mother back in her life.

But when a man from the ultra-Orthodox enclave of Roseville, N.Y. contacts Rebekah about his young wife's mysterious death, she is drawn back into Aviva's world. Pessie Goldin's body was found in her bathtub, and while her parents want to believe it was an accident, her husband is certain she was murdered.

Once she starts poking around, Rebekah encounters a whole society of people who have wandered "off the path" of ultra-Orthodox Judaism-just like her mother. But some went with dark secrets, and rage at the insular community they left behind.

In the sequel to her Edgar Award finalist Invisible City , Julia Dahl has created a taut mystery that is both a window into a secretive culture and an exploration of the demons we inherit.

Author Notes

JULIA DAHL is a journalist specializing in crime and criminal justice. Her first novel, Invisible City , was named one of the Boston Globe 's Best Books of 2014 and was a finalist for an Edgar Award and a Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. and writes for CBSNews.com.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

This sequel to Dahl's Invisible City is told from two points of view-those of Aviva, a mother who abandoned her daughter in infancy, and Rebekah, the daughter who is now a journalist in New York City. Aviva had grown up in New York in a strict Hasidic environment and rebelled by running away and having a baby with a Christian Floridian. After abandoning her daughter, Aviva returned to New York. Rebekah was raised by her father in Florida, then earned a degree in journalism, and found a job with a New York newspaper, where she had the freedom to investigate crime in the Jewish community. As she investigates the death of a young wife in an ultra-orthodox Jewish community, she gets closer to her roots, as well as getting closer to her own peril. Rebekah discovers that her mother has links to the story she is investigating, and by the time the two women meet, they fear the repercussions of their connections. Andi Arndt narrates each voice distinctly. Verdict The view Dahl offers into Hasidic society is captivating. This audiobook will be in demand, especially in diverse communities. ["Dahl's smart, twisty plot and suspenseful tone will grip mystery and thriller lovers until the final page": LJ Xpress Reviews 6/12/15 review of the Minotaur: St. Martin's hc.]-Ann Weber, Bellarmine Coll. Prep., San Jose, CA © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.