Follow Her Home

Name: Follow Her Home
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Steph Cha
ISBN: 9781666110166

Author: Steph Cha

Series: Juniper Song Mystery #1

Narrator: Greta Jung

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2021

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

A stunning, edgy debut introducing Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of LA 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 LA's side streets, following leads, tailing suspects—it all appeals to Song's romantic ideal of the noir hero. But when she's knocked out while investigating a mysterious car and finds a body in her own trunk, Song lurches back to the real LA, becoming embroiled in a crime that goes far beyond role play. What's more, this isn't the first time Song has stuck her nose in other people's business. As she fights to discover the truth about her friend's 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.

Contains mature themes.

About Steph Cha

Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award, and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She's a critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she served as noir editor, and is the current series editor of the Best American Mystery & Suspense anthology. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steph on May 05, 2016

This is the best book I've ever written. I hope you guys like it okay and don't judge me for rating my own book. I waited until I had 100 ratings in, like maybe that would make it better? I don't know, man. Social media is hard.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on July 05, 2018

Mystery novels are one of the whitest genres around, so when I heard about Steph Cha's Juniper Song series I was very ready to have a different point of view. And sure enough this sent me to the kinds of places you don't see too much in mystery novels. Cha is able to explore the fetishization of Asi......more

Goodreads review by John on May 19, 2019

Juniper Song -- generally called just Song -- is a young single woman of Korean extraction living in LA and with a lifelong addiction to the works of Raymond Chandler, specifically the Marlowe novels. The opening few lines of this novel sold me on it, vibrant as they are with the timbre Marlowe's vo......more

Goodreads review by Jake on October 05, 2018

I’m usually graceful when I review first time novelists, so while there was a lot that annoyed me about Steph Cha’s debut, I generally enjoyed it and am going to lean mostly on the positives. I love hard boiled/noir fiction. Apparently, so does Steph Cha and her main character (and author ancillary)......more

Goodreads review by Rincey on September 26, 2018

2.5 stars See me discuss it in my August wrap up: [URL not allowed]......more