Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico\'s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation.
Her taboo Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in N.
As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won\'t let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life.
In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook.
Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases--she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. --Tommy Orange, author of There There Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force.
This is a story that won\'t let you go long after you finish, and you won\'t want it to end even as you can\'t stop reading to find out how it does. . .
A haunting thriller, written with exquisite suspense .
Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico\'s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation.
Written in sparkling, gruesome prose, Shutter is an explosive debut from one of crime fiction\'s most powerful new voices.
When Rita is sent to photograph the scene of a supposed suicide on a highway overpass, the furious, discombobulated ghost of the victim--who insists she was murdered--latches onto Rita, forcing her on a quest for revenge against her killers, and Rita finds herself in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque\'s most dangerous cartels.
And now it might be what gets her killed.
It has isolated her from friends and gotten her in trouble with the law.
Her taboo and psychologically harrowing ability was what drove her away from the Navajo reservation, where she was raised by her grandmother.
As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won\'t let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life.
In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook.
Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases--she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details.
Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force.
Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico\'s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation
