Long Bright River, by Liz Moore

In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.

Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late.

Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate.

Hardcover, January 7, 2020

"An instant sensation and the January pick for Good Morning America’s book club." 
—Entertainment Weekly
 
"Navigates assuredly between the plot twists and big reveals. . . . Long Bright River is equal parts literary and thrilling." 
—O, The Oprah Magazine
 
"Tough, tense and twisty - but tender, human and deeply affecting, too ... I don't have a sister, but when I finished the book I called my brother, just to hear his voice."
—Lee Child
 
"Satisfyingly, the characters’ interior lives are as important as the mysteries that propel the action." 
—NYT Editor’s Choice
 
"Deftly plotted with strong, vivid characters, Liz Moore's outstanding Long Bright River works as solid crime fiction and an intense family thriller." 
—Associated Press