Conviction

From the author of the Edgar-nominated Invisible City comes another timely thriller that illuminates societys darkest corners. Told in part through the eyes of a jittery eyewitness and the massacres sole survivor, Julia Dahl's Conviction examines the powerand costof community, loyalty, and denial. In the summer of 1992, a year after riots exploded between black and Jewish neighbors in Crown Heights, a black family is brutally murdered in their Brooklyn home.

A teenager is quickly convicted, and the justice system moves on. Twenty-two years later, journalist Rebekah Roberts gets a letter I didn't do it. Frustrated with her work at the citys sleaziest tabloid, Rebekah starts to dig.

But witnesses are missing, memories faded, and almost no one wants to talk about that grim, violent time in New York Citynot even Saul Katz, a former cop and her source in Brooklyns insular Hasidic community. So she goes it alone. And as she gets closer to the truth of that night, Rebekah finds herself in the path of a killer with two decades of secrets to protect.

Dahl is a journalist specializing in crime and criminal justice. Her first novel, Invisible City, was named one of the Boston Globes Best Books of 2014, won the Macavity, Barry, and Shamus Awards, and was a finalist for an Edgar Award and a Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brooklyn, N.

Y. and writes for CBSNews. com.