by Ivy Pochoda (Author)"Urgent, haunting, and fearless." --Megan Abbott, author of Beware the Woman"Sing Her Down hits like a shotgun blast." --Dennis Lehane, author of Small MerciesCormac McCarthy meets Killing Eve in this gritty, razor-sharp thriller following two indelible women on a path to certain destruction With blistering, incisive prose, the award-winning author Ivy Pochoda delivers a fast-paced L.A. crime novel for the ages. Gripping and immersive, Sing Her Down is a spellbinding thriller that, at its core, shows just what an angry woman is capable of. Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women's prison--or so her ex-cellmate Diosmary Sandoval keeps insinuating. Dios knows the truth about Florida's crimes, understands what Florence hides even from herself: that she was never a victim of circumstance, an unlucky bystander misled by a bad man. Dios knows that darkness lives in women too, despite the world's refusal to see it. And she is determined to open Florida's eyes and unleash her true self. When an unexpected reprieve gives both women their freedom, Dios's fixation on Florida turns into a dangerous obsession, and a deadly cat-and-mouse chase ensues from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles.Author BiographyIvy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, and These Women. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and France's Prix Page / America, and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other awards. For many years, she taught creative writing at Studio 526 in Los Angeles's Skid Row. She is a professor of creative writing in the low-residency MFA program at the Palm Desert Center of the University of California, Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 28, 2024
