Long Bright River

"Being a mother is about learning the strengths you never new you had and dealing the fears you didn't know existed." - Unknown

"In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked but he opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, and the police department has no idea of their connection, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey panics over her sister's safety. Risking her job, and maybe even the welfare of her four-year-old son, Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit - and her sister - before it's too late."

The hard-life streets of Philadelphia are the setting that has stayed with me from his story. This hard-life doesn't discriminate by age, race, gender or walk of life. It swallows people up whole and often spits them out just in time for their family members to mourn what remains. An amazingly well-told story of family, devastation, loss, drug addiction, crime and community. Although this is well over 450 pages, it was an addictive page turner! I fell into the optimism that this might be the time 'they' change, this could be the time rehab works and the story pulled me back in with each twist and turn.

Do not miss this one! It's fantastic!

4 1/2 out of 5 stars

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