Liz Moore's Long Bright River is a propulsive tale of sisters on different paths in a struggling area of Philadelphia, a police officer and an addict. A duality of good and bad is woven through the plot: life choices, crime, policing, parenting. This is a harrowing but redemptive whodunnit.Publisher's description:
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.
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Agnes Sharp and her comrades band together in their "sunset years" to deal with the world, their ailments, and each other remarkably. Some shun their scandal. The police don't see past their aged exterior despite their lethal skills. Narrator Moira Quirk adds great personality and tempo to the story.