Saving Emma
Book description
A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author).
"Ambitious, absorbing, and…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Saving Emma as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I've read all of Allen Eskens' novels, and every time I finish one, I think it was my favorite.
Since I read this novel in 2024, it's my current favorite of his, and it skyrocketed to the top of my favorite reads this year. I loaned it out, and can't wait to get it back to reread it, and see how he planted so much in a few hundred pages. I don't reread novels very often, either, but I want to dig through it to absorb how he did this one.
Eskens does not write series, but his characters tie…
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