Synopses & Reviews
August. The hottest summer on record.
In downtown Manhattan, two police officers answer a noise complaint and are shot for their trouble. Meanwhile, across the bridge in Brooklyn, forty-year-old Emma Price faces a midlife crisis. Her husband is bailing on their ten-year marriage. She's got a young son to raise. And she's pregnant to boot. When her longtime baby-sitter drowns, Emma is drawn into a multilayered mystery. Solving it will mean examining some unpleasant home truths.
A hit-and-run death in Massachusetts. A carjacking gone wrong in New Mexico. An apparent suicide in Manhattan. Emma Price will discover what links these deaths. Entering into a prickly partnership with a streetwise Brooklyn cop, she finds herself questioning many of the assumptions she's made about the people she's decided to trust and love. As the novel swings between her comfortable middle-class existence, New York City's downtown club scene, and the gritty world of Brooklyn Homicide, Price and her on-again, off-again ally, Detective Laurence Solomon, will try to solve this puzzle in time to catch a killer...
"The One That Got Away is a riveting novel of suspense. In this assured and masterful debut, the reader examines what it means to honor one's commitments and what is at the heart of the ultimate mystery; the one that dictates who and how we choose to love.
About the Author
Naomi Rand received her M.FA. from Columbia University. She has been awarded a grant in fiction from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Her writing has appeared in
Redbook, Parents, and
Working Mother. She is the author of
Baby Basics, which she wrote for the What to
Expect When You're Expecting Foundation. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband and two children.