First published 2019
Sarah Chen faces an impossible choice when she discovers her neighbor's dark secret. The quiet suburban street she calls home harbors a predator who has escaped justice through legal technicalities. As a prosecutor who has spent years watching criminals slip through the system's cracks, Sarah knows the law's limitations intimately. When the police prove powerless and the courts offer no recourse, she must decide whether to take matters into her own hands. Her decision sets off a chain of events that forces her to confront the difference between legal justice and moral necessity. Sullivan crafts a tense examination of how far ordinary people will go to protect the innocent when institutions fail them. The story asks whether some acts of violence can be justified and what price we pay for crossing that line.
Genres: fiction, suspense, mystery, crime, thriller, legal-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: moral-ambiguity, ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances, vigilante-justice
Setting: Suburban Street
384 pages · Paperback · Ebury Press
Content warnings: violence