Until She Comes Home A Suspense Thriller [Paperback]

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 in 1958.

The ladies of Alder Avenue—Grace, Julia, and Malina—struggle to care for one another amidst a city ripe with conflict, but life erupts when child-like Elizabeth disappears. A black woman was recently murdered at the factory where their husbands work, and the ladies fear that crime may foretell Elizabeth’s fate. When an unmistakable sound rings out, will the vicious secrets that bind them all be revealed?“Shocking . . . heartbreaking . . . In Lori Roy’s crime novel, tiny tremors in the life of late 1950s Detroit warn of the cataclysms to come.” –The New York Times Book Review 
 
“You won’t be able to put [it] down.” –Ladies’ Home Journal
 
“Backtrack[s] into the past with thrilling results.” –Family Circle
 
“Rich . . . Lyrical . . . Roy delivers a timeless story that gives shape to those secrets and tragedies from which some people never recover.” –McClatchy-Tribune News Service
 
“Lori Roy has entered the arena of great American authors shared by Williams, Faulkner and Lee.” –BookReporter
 
“A tour-de-force of mood and suspense.” –Bookpage
 
“Outstanding. . . . Roy’s language pulses with so much subtle tension . . . exposing the characters’ true selves and their tragic secrets.” –Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
 
“Until She Comes Home is a suspenseful, atmospheric work of crime fiction as well as a lƒ#