Long Bright River

"Liz Moore’s thriller Long Bright River is a book that a lot of different readers can enjoy: It’s a contemporary novel about the opioid epidemic, it’s a novel about sisters and families, it’s a book about the police and how they fall short of the communities they serve, and it’s a really well-plotted crime novel. Its central story revolves around Mickey, a patrol officer raising a young son in a working-class neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, and her missing sister, who’s addicted to drugs. Both women are the children of addicts, raised by a tough grandmother. The central mystery is the hunt for a killer targeting sex workers, but truly, this is a great literary novel about a city in the age of opioids and two sisters navigating their past. And in the tradition of many great literary thrillers, I promise you, you will not see the end coming."

"Liz Moore's Long Bright River, about the opioid crisis in Philadelphia's Kensington."