City of Saviors, Rachel Howzell Hall
City of Saviors, Rachel Howzell Hall
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City of Saviors
A Detective Elouise Norton Novel

Author: Rachel Howzell Hall

Narrator: Je Nie Fleming

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2019


Synopsis

"A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise...Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year."--Lee Child

Los Angeles Homicide Detective Elouise Norton encounters her toughest case yet in City of Saviors, the fourth installment in the critically acclaimed mystery series from author Rachel Howzell Hall.

After a long Labor Day weekend, seventy-three-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. At first blush, his death seems unremarkable—heatwave combined with food poisoning from a holiday barbecue. But something in the way Washington died doesn’t make sense. LAPD Homicide Detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called to investigate the death and learns that the only family Washington had was the 6,000-member congregation of Blessed Mission Ministries, led by Bishop Solomon Tate.

But something wicked is lurking among the congregants of this church.

Lou’s partner, Detective Colin Taggert, thinks her focus on the congregation comes from her distrust of organized religion. But Lou is convinced that the murderer is sitting in one of those red velvet pews—and that Bishop Tate may be protecting the wolf in the flock. Lou must force the truth into the light and confront her own demons in order to save another soul before it’s too late.

“Hall deserves to be compared to Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell, and it will not be long before she is recognized as every bit as big a crime writing star.”--Daily Mail (UK)

About Rachel Howzell Hall

Rachel Howzell Hall is the critically acclaimed author of the Amazon Charts bestseller We Lie Here, the Anthony, Strand, and International Thriller Award—nominated These Toxic Things, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize—nominated And Now She’s Gone, which was also nominated for the Lefty, Barry, Shamus, and Anthony Awards. Rachel is a former member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America and was a featured writer on NPR’s acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast. Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. rachelhowzell.com


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on September 23, 2017

City of Saviors is the fourth book by Rachel Howzell Hall involving homicide Det. Elouise Norton and returning characters of the Los Angeles Police Department. Norton has now been promoted to a detective sergeant, allowing Hall to weave this change into the story to bring additional layers to her sto......more

Goodreads review by Ellis on January 10, 2018

A pure distillation of everything that makes Elouise Norton books great - all of the sass and the sincerity, all of the darkness and all of the heart. This is nearly perfect, both laugh out loud funny and creepy as all hell.......more

Goodreads review by Ariel on September 13, 2017

*frustrated sigh* Listen, I really love this series. It's interesting, gritty, and I can relate to Lou on a personal level. I love that when I'm reading this, I don't think of her as a character. This book is my favorite of the series so far and I hope it's continued. After the events of the last boo......more

Goodreads review by Renee on March 18, 2018

Just. So. Good. Especially for those of us mourning Sue Grafton, this is a great series. You don't HAVE TO start at the beginning of the series. But I would (and I did).......more

Goodreads review by Nakia on March 08, 2018

This installment of the Detective Elouise Norton series gave me the heebie jeebies in more ways than one. Lou also started to get on my nerves, but that is mostly because anyone who is physically hurt but refusing to take care of themselves by sitting down somewhere, grinds my gears. The book starts......more


Quotes

"Lou . . . is a formidable fighter—someone you want on your side."—New York Times Book Review

"Hall has created a strong and likable African American detective who rivals Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch in grit, intelligence, and tenacity."—Library Journal, starred review on Trail of Echoes

"A fresh voice in crime fiction."—Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author

“A much needed breath of fresh air . . . Quite simply, in this series, Hall is hitting all the right notes."—The Root