which promptly became a love and a muse.
She studied art and was lucky enough to illustrate numerous publications before transitioning to the digital world.
She has a particular fascination with psychological thrillers, crime, and suspense. All the dark stuff. So that’s what she writes.
Naymark's novels are Hide in Place and the newly released Behind the Lie.
At CrimeReads she tagged seven "novels [that] are examples of women going against their moral code—to the point of self-sacrifice—to protect those they love most." One title on the list:
Long Bright River by Liz MooreRead about the other entries on the list.
Mickey is a cop patrolling the working-class Philadelphia neighborhood where she and her younger sister, Kacey, grew up. Kacey, sometimes homeless, haunts thestreets for other reasons as she battles drug addiction. Then she disappears, just as someone begins killing young sex workers in the same precinct.
As Mickey searches and searches the familiar streets and interviews people she’s known her entire life, a decision she’d made years ago is highlighted. As a reader, I believed in what she did and thought she’d made the choice I would have made. Maybe. Where this novel excels is in showing Mickey’s decision from several angles, shining a spotlight on belief systems that may or may not be flawed, convictions that may have grown out of motives not entirely selfless.
Long Bright River is among Willa C. Richards's seven books about the heartbreak of losing a sibling.
--Marshal Zeringue
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