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Can a killer be brought to justice... before he claims his next victim?
Along the ever changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, seventeen year old Monique Darson is found dead at a condominium construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished unit. Homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton's new partner, Colin Taggert, fresh from the comparatively bucolic Colorado Springs police department, assumes it's a teenage suicide. Lou isn't buying the easy explanation.
For one thing, the condo site is owned by Napoleon Crase, a self made millionaire... and the man who may have murdered Lou's missing sister, Tori, thirty years ago. As Lou investigates the death of Monique Darson, she uncovers undeniable links between the two cases. But her department is skeptical. Lou is convinced that when she solves Monique's case she will finally bring her lost sister home. But as she gets closer to the truth, she also gets closer to a violent killer.
"Starred Review. A racially explosive Los Angeles provides the backdrop for this exceptional crime novel from Hall " - Publishers Weekly
"Hall's first book, A Quiet Storm (2002), was a domestic drama about a family facing mental illness; here she moves easily into the suspense genre - where hopefully she and Officer Norton will stay for a long time to come." - Booklist
"This first procedural from Hall combines a conflicted, gutsy heroine and a complex, many-layered mystery." - Kirkus
"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year." - Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author
"Spellbinding. Gritty. Original, complex, profound, and riveting. This is a voice you have never heard - and will be unable to forget. Prepare to be blown away." - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author
"Intense, gritty and absolutely riveting, Land of Shadows took my breath away." - Hilary Davidson, Anthony Award-winning author, Blood Always Tells
"A hardhitting tale of a modern, complex Los Angeles. Well-written and deftly paced...a story that stays with you after the last page is read." - Gary Phillips, author of Warlord of Willow Ridge
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Rachel Howzell Hall is the author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize– and Lefty Award–nominated And Now She's Gone; and the Anthony Award–, Lefty Award–, and International Thriller Writers Award–nominated They All Fall Down. She also writes the acclaimed Detective Elouise Norton series, including Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash, Trail of Echoes, and City of Saviors. Rachel is also the coauthor of The Good Sister with James Patterson, which was included in the New York Times bestseller The Family Lawyer. She lives in Los Angeles.
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