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From the author of the Edgar-nominated Invisible City comes another timely thriller that illuminates society’s darkest corners. Told in part through the eyes of a jittery eyewitness and the massacre’s sole survivor, Julia Dahl's Conviction examines the power—and cost—of community...

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...

Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking about crime and working on her biography of a relative. When a young cousin comes to stay, life in the house becomes uncharacteristically lively. First, cousin Judy burns a hole in Miss Bell's desk. Next, they spy a burglar on the staircase—a shadowy figure who vanishes without a trace. And finally, Sarah, the nurse, takes the dogs for a walk and never returns. She is found savagely murdered, and she will not be the last to die.

Das Herzstück einer Mädchenschule ist abgebrannt: die Bibliothek! Einflussreiche Herren sehen hier ihre Chance, die Schule gleich ganz zu schließen. Eliza und Millie wollen dies natürlich verhindern! Getarnt mischen sie sich in den High-School-Alltag und verteidigen gleich eine gemobbte Schülerin. Doch zwischen Cricket, Unterricht und Teepausen finden Millie und Eliza finstere Geheimnisse: Erpressung, falsche Identitäten und ein fast perfektes Verbrechen.