Run You Down - Julia Dahl

If you enjoyed UNORTHODOX, you will be riveted by Rebekah Roberts . . .''Chilling.'' Sunday TimesAviva Kagan was just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida. A few months later she was pregnant, engaged to be married and trapped in a life she never imagined. So, shortly after the birth of her daughter she disappeared.Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from, NYC tabloid reporter Rebekah Roberts, wants nothing to do with her. But when a man from the ultra-Orthodox enclave of Roseville, NY contacts Rebekah about his young wife’s mysterious death, she is drawn into Aviva’s old world, and a hidden culture full of dangerous secrets and frustrations.''Dahl is an evocative writer, never more so than when she''s describing the nascent yearnings of those younger members of that religious community — gay, vaguely feminist, simply different — who can''t quite fit in, but can''t quite leave.'' Maureen Corrigan, NPR‘The smart, twisty plot and suspenseful tone will grip mystery and thriller lovers until the final page.’ Library Journal