Windmill Books, London 2020

Inside the book there are two pages of praise for the author, who lives in Philadelphia, where her novel is set.

 In its centre are two sisters. Mickey is a police detective, Kacey, her younger sister  a drug addict, both work the street, just on different sides.

What makes the story unbearable for me are the neverending lamentations of Mickey, who tells the events in the first person. As I know similar characters in real life, I just cannot endure, how it is everybody else´s fault, from the parents to society, that things went from wrong to disastrous with Kacey´s drug addiction. In addition Moore concentrates on the decaying, criminal parts of the city as the fitting surroundings for her protagonists. All in all, just too depressing, if realistic.

As the story develops, it turns out that Kacey has disappeared and Mickey makes it her task to find her, dead or alive.

I have to leave her at that point.