City Dark, Roger A. Canaff
City Dark, Roger A. Canaff
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City Dark
A Thriller

Author: Roger A. Canaff

Narrator: Michael Orenstein

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2022

Synopsis

A vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense.On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois. Forty years to the day after this unforgivable moment, Joe is a hard-drinking ADA and Lois has resurfaced: Joe wakes from another alcoholic fog to learn she’s been found murdered on a Coney Island beach.Joe throws himself into his work, struggling to reconcile his memories of Lois with the relative stranger found by the NYPD. And when another murder hits close to home and DNA links Joe to both crimes, he sinks deeper into the abyss. Joe can’t remember a thing. His last hope as the evidence mounts against him is Aideen Bradigan, a brilliant and dogged lawyer from his past.It will take Aideen’s drive and Joe’s own shrewd legal mind to uncover a potentially terrifying truth—and to shatter the devastating secrets that claw back to that fateful night in the dark.

About Roger A. Canaff

Roger A. Canaff is a former New York City special victims prosecutor and author of Bleed Through, winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award and the second in the Alex Greco ADA series. Previous novels include Among the Dead and Copperhead Road. He began his prosecutorial career in historic Alexandria, Virginia, served as president of the board of directors of End Violence Against Women International, and is a charter member of CounterQuo, an organization challenging the way our culture responds to sexual violence. Currently Roger teaches undergraduate and law school classes and trains and consults nationally and internationally. He lives and works in New York City. For more information, visit www.rogercanaff.com/about.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mehva

I have mixed feelings about this one, the plot was interesting but the writing style didn't work for me. I think it would have been more interesting as a tv show or movie. Mysteries from the past intersect with the present and a man fights to defend himself again murder charges......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

I loved this book! It was such an amazing book! The mystery of what would happen next kept me intrigued the whole time. I could not put down the book! I recommend this book to anyone and everyone who can read!. It had a good story to it. I liked the variety of characters in it. It was a well written......more

Goodreads review by Martin

OK, this book totally stumped me. I rarely pay attention to the % read figure at the bottom of my Kindle, but I noted this one so I could report back to y'all that for the first 80% of this thriller it's pretty decent. Our protagonist is an interesting and likable guy, a functioning alcoholic attorn......more

Quotes

“Canaff keeps the reader guessing to the end about what happened to Robbie on that fateful night. This character-driven family drama satisfies.” —Publishers Weekly“With a nicely honed mix of dark passages and surprising revelations, City Dark is a gritty, cleverly plotted, and well written police procedural that will intrigue mystery fans.” —San Francisco Book Review“A pulse pounding thriller from a New York insider. When NYC goes dark, two brothers’ lives are forever altered. Part legal thriller. Part police procedural. City Dark will thrill every reader.” —Robert Dugoni, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author

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