“Equal parts charm and heartbreak, with razor-sharp insights on class, race, and family.” -Laura Lippman “A briskly plotted, socially astute thriller.” ― Los Angeles Times Even if that means untangling her family’s darkest secrets-or ending up dead herself. While the two sisters had been torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their difficult father, Lena becomes determined to find justice for Desiree. And Desiree would never travel above 125th Street.

Despite the bitter truth that the two hadn’t spoken in two years, they were half-sisters. Yet Columbia grad student Lena-principled, headstrong, and allergic to the spotlight-knows that can’t be the case. When the body of reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her twenty-fifth birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose.

I found out she’d died from the New York Daily News. “I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. “A mystery that has everything I love most: an intriguing set up an absorbing storyline that kept me guessing a satisfying ending and, most of all, incredibly well-developed characters I kept thinking about long after I finished the book.” ―Jasmine Guillory, Today Show A CrimeReads Best Psychological Thriller of the Year.A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of the Year.A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year.A New York Post Best New Book of the Week.Lefty Award Winner for Best Mystery Novel.In this 'crackling domestic suspense' filled with 'wry humor and deft pacing' (Alyssa Cole), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead-except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth.

Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett