Long Bright River | Chart listen

Ranked for listeners who want the whole story: Long Bright River in literature & fiction, read by Allyson Ryan.

An instant New York Times best seller A Good Morning America Recording Club Pick “[Moore’s] careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates Long Bright River from entertaining keep-playing title to a book that makes you want to call someone you love.” ( The New York Times Book Review ) “This is police procedural and a thriller par excellence, one in which the city of Philadelphia itself is a character (think Boston and Mystic River ). But it’s also a literary tale narrated by a strong woman with a richly drawn personal life – powerful and genre-defying.” ( People ) “A thoughtful, powerful novel by a writer who displays enormous compassion for her characters.  Long Bright River  is an outstanding crime novel…. I absolutely loved it.” (Paula Hawkins, number-one New York Times best-selling author of  The Girl on the Train ) Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn’t be more different. Then one of them goes missing. 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 tightly wound suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate. ©2020 Liz Moore (P)2020 Penguin Audio

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