Lori Roy: 8 books

Nominated for a 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel “You won’t be able to put [it] down.” —Ladies Home Journal Lori 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...

**“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...

**Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Best Books of 2018 Two-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...

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...

**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...

Detroit, en 1958, à la fin du mois de juin. Dans le quartier ouvrier blanc d’Adler Avenue, l’atmosphère est pesante, l’air chargé de menaces. Les grandes usines où tous les hommes sont employés commencent à fermer et, plus inquiétant encore, des gens de couleur s’installent dans le...

Pendant leur vingt ans de vie commune à Detroit, Celia Scott a regardé son mari, Arthur, se cacher derrière les secrets entourant la mort de sa sœur Eve. Mais en 1967, les émeutes raciales l’effraient encore plus que son passé et il décide de retourner vivre dans la ferme familiale où il...

« 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 Review   Tout 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...