Follow Her Home: 1 (Juniper Song Mysteries 1)

A stunning edgy debut introducing Juniper Song an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of L.A. with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart.. Juniper Song knows secrets–how to keep them and how to search them out. As a girl noir fiction was her favorite escape and Philip Marlowe has always been her literary idol. So when her friend Luke asks her to investigate a possible affair between his father and a young employee Juniper (or Song as her friends call her) finds an opportunity to play detective. Driving through L.A.s side streets following leads tailing suspects-it all appeals to Songs romantic ideal of the noir hero. But when shes knocked out while investigating a mysterious car and finds a body in her own trunk Song lurches back to the real L.A. becoming embroiled in a crime that goes far beyond role play. Whats more this isnt the first time Song has stuck her nose in other peoples business. As she fights to discover the truth about her friends family Song reveals one of her own deeply hidden secrets something dark and damaging urging her to see the current mystery through to rectify the mistakes of her past life.. A dazzling debut from fresh new talent Steph Cha featuring a strong modern sharply observant heroine with an unforgettable voice Follow Her Home takes readers through dangerous twists and turns beyond the glittering high-rises and freeways of L.A. on a case that will stay with them long after the final page.. Praise for Follow Her Home. [Song] is a compelling and original protagonist… One only hopes that Cha and her driven neo-noir detective have more opportunities to explore those troubling intersections over many books to come. –LA Times. Stephanie Chas brilliant debut is as Noir as Old Nicks sense of humour. Compelling from first to last page she takes on contemporary L.A. sweeping the reader through Chandlers twilight heartbroken city from mansions to faux K-town hostess bars. L.A. Noir at its finest. -- Denise Mina author of The Dead Hour. Follow Her Home takes a fresh trip down the sunny dark streets of Los Angeles and Juniper Song is a great guide - young sharp and worldly-wise. Keenly observed and deeply felt the story slowly got under my skin. I couldnt put it down. - Meg Gardiner Edgar Award-winning author of Ransom River. In a glittery L.A. of pretty privileged twentysomethings Stephanie Chas Follow Her Home opens like a playful homage to Raymond Chandler but deepens into something darker: an utterly 21st-century ode to sisterhood in the face of crime. A fast-paced thriller told in smart sparkling prose Follow Her Home is a moving exploration of mothers and daughters men and women immigrant history loss and hope. –Joy Castro author of Hell or High Water