Trail of Echoes: A Detective Elouise Norton Novel (Detective Elouise Norton, 3) - Hardcover

Hall, Rachel Howzell

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9780765381170: Trail of Echoes: A Detective Elouise Norton Novel (Detective Elouise Norton, 3)

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ISBN 10: 0765381176 ISBN 13: 9780765381170

Publisher: Forge Books, 2016

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Trail of Echoes: the latest Elouise Norton mystery novel from critically acclaimed writer Rachel Howzell Hall.

On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered. When Lou and her partner, Colin Taggert, take on the sad task of informing Chanita's mother, Lou is surprised to find herself in the apartment building she grew up in.

Chanita was interested in photography and, much like Lou, a black girl destined to leave the housing projects behind. Her death fits a chilling pattern of exceptional African-American girls--dancers, artists, honors scholars-gone recently missing in the same school district, the one Lou attended not so long ago.

Lou is valiantly trying to make a go of life after her divorce and doing everything she can to avoid her long estranged father. She races to catch a serial killer, but he remains frustratingly out of her reach, sending cryptic cyphers and taunting clues that arrive too late to prevent the next death. This one is personal, and it's only a matter of time before he comes after Lou herself.

"Gives voice to a rare figure in crime fiction: a highly complex, fully imagined black female detective." - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

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About the Author:

RACHEL HOWZELL HALL is the Marketing Manager of Individual Giving at Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. She is the author of the acclaimed Lou Norton series, including Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash and Trail of Echoes. She lives in Los Angeles.

Review:

"The third and best of a finely wrought series (Skies of Ash, 2015, etc.) that gives voice to a rare figure in crime fiction: a highly complex, fully imagined black female detective." - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"The third novel based on black Detective Elouise 'Lou' Norton and set in LA, this confirms the crime series as one of the best-crafted in recent years... Hall deserves to be compared to Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell, and it will not be long before she is recognised as every bit as big a crime writing star." - U.K. Daily Mail

"Hall knows how to craft character and spin a tangled whodunit. Trail of Echoes is a riveting, fast-paced and suspenseful addition to a strong, new series. A must-read for fans of the detective-mystery genre who have been longing for a compelling black female hero to root for." - The Root

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