You can go home now : a novel / Michael Elias.

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Title:

You can go home now : a novel / Michael Elias.

Author:

Elias, Michael

ISBN:

9780062954169

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Harper, 2020.

Physical Description:

255 p.

Abstract:

Nina is actually a tough Queens cop, an avenger on a mission. Her latest investigation involves Artemis, one of the city's battered women's shelters. A number of men connected to the women living there are ending up dead. Why? To find the answer, she's going undercover into the shelter as a brutalized woman. Though Nina is playing a victim, she's anything but. Yet this isn't her only secret.

Subject Term:

Policewomen -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Undercover operations -- Fiction.

Women's shelters -- Fiction.

Men -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Abused women -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Status
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Summary

In this smart, relevant, unputdownable psychological thriller, a woman cop is on the hunt for a killer while battling violent secrets of her own.

"My name is Nina Karim. I am a single thirty-one-year-old woman who likes cats, Ryan Reynolds movies, beautiful sunsets, walking on a wintry beach holding hands with a tall, caring, lightly bearded third-wave feminist. Yeah, right."

Nina is a tough Queens detective with a series of cold case homicides on her desk - men whose widows had the same alibi: they were living in Artemis, a battered women's shelter, when their husbands were killed.

Nina goes undercover into Artemis. Though she is playing the victim, she's anything but. Nina knows about violence and the bullies who rely on it because she's experienced it in her own life.

In this heart-pounding thriller Nina confronts the violence of her own past in Artemis where she finds solidarity with a community of women who deal with abusive and lethal men in their own way.

For the women living in Artemis there is no absolute moral compass, there is the law and there is survival. And, for Nina, who became a cop so she could find the man who murdered her father, there is only revenge.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Iranian-American Nina Karim, the heroine of this strong thriller from Elias (The Last Conquistador), has a secret reason for joining the Long Island City, N.Y., PD--she wants access to resources only a police officer has so that she can find the anonymous Army of God sniper who killed her father when she was a teen in 1999. In the course of her work as a detective, she sees a pattern in murder victims who abused women while they were alive and connects them all to the Artemis Shelter for Women, where she goes undercover as an abuse victim. Meanwhile, she pursues a lead on the identity of her father's killer. Though Nina's feelings about the "cowardly bastard" are clear, she's morally conflicted about finding the killer of the abusers. A few women at the shelter have stories that feel clichéd, like the Pakistani woman who's threatened with an honor killing, but overall Elias does a good job of conveying a painful reality. This is for anyone who doesn't mind their heroes acting in the gray areas to see justice done. Agent: Caroline Michel, Peters, Fraser & Dunlop Group. (June)

Booklist Review

Long Island City PD homicide detective Nina Karim tells her boss that police shows on TV--and especially Angie Dickinson in Police Woman--inspired her to become a cop. But the real motivator was the murder of Nina's physician father, worked for Planned Parenthood and was presumably killed by an anti-abortion zealot. Working in law enforcement seemed the best way to find the "cowardly bastard" who did it, a promise Nina made to her younger brother and mother, both now dead. Years later she's still searching, when an old friend comes up with a new lead while Nina is working on a possible connection between the murders of persons who savagely abused their domestic partners. This leads her to a secret women's shelter in Queens, where residents can stay until it's safe for them to go home, prompting Nina to go undercover as an abused wife. In a rousing climax, Elias (The Last Conquistador, 2013) deftly ties together the plot threads of Nina's personal quest and her current assignment. A compulsively readable thriller that could take Elias to another level of acclaim.