Julia Dahl is the author of Conviction, Run You Down, and Invisible City, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014, and has been translated into eight languages. A former reporter for CBS News and the New York Post, she now teaches journalism at NYU.
Dahl's newest novel is I Dreamed of Falling.
At CrimeReads the author tagged four works of crime fiction with children as prominent characters, including:
Jordan Harper, She Rides ShotgunRead about another entry on the list.
Eleven-year-old Polly is the beating heart of this Edgar-winning first novel by Jordan Harper. Taken in the first chapter by her ex-con father, she is thrown into his world of violence, playing the role of both victim and savior. Harper draws Polly lovingly, balancing her genius-level natural intelligence and psychological immaturity with the emotional clarity that children possess and that too many adults have long lost. I can’t wait for the film version—out next year!
She Rides Shotgun is among Kerry Lonsdale's five crime novels about overcoming self-doubt.
--Marshal Zeringue
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