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	Your House Will Pay 4.07 avg rating — 11,014 ratings — published 2019 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Follow Her Home (Juniper Song, #1) 3.40 avg rating — 1,351 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2021: The Year's Best Crime Noir and Psychological Thriller Stories by Alafair Burke (Goodreads Author) (Editor / Introduction), Steph Cha (Goodreads Author) (Editor / Foreword), Jenny Bhatt (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beware Beware: A Juniper Song Mystery (Juniper Song Mysteries Book 2) 3.88 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Soon Enough (Juniper Song, #3) 3.95 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Valerie Martin (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 421 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 by S.A. Cosby (Goodreads Author), Steph Cha (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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As you probably know if you’re already here, I wrote another book! Dead Soon Enough is the third installment in my Juniper Song series, and it deals with pregnancy surrogacy and the Armenian genocide. It got a starred, boxed review in Publishers Weekly––my first starred review, which I expect will result in runaway success and enormous wealth.

The book drops less than a week from now, on August 11,

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As story engines go, the classic revenge tale is a sturdy piece of narrative equipment. Shakespeare was fond of the theme (Othello)....

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“Every day there had been rotten cops in the news and still she had been bamboozled.

‘I mean, they’re supposed to protect people, right? How can they be so bad at their jobs?’

‘They protect people from other people. Question is, who are people, and who are other people?”
― Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

tags: black-lives-matter, police, police-brutality

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“Smoke rose in a pillar like something from the Bible, dark and alive and climbing, becoming one with the gray sky.”
― Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

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“There wasn’t much around: a warehouse, a wire fence, scrubby bushes on hard yellow ground, power lines draped across an empty, burning sky.”
― Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

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“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

tags: change, discovery, perspective, travel

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