Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
A tautly plotted L.A.-set thriller for fans of Orange is the New Black and The Wire‘A debut as fast, flexible and poised as a chef’s knifeAt its best it has the lithe energy of a Lee Child novel, combined with Dennis Lehane’s – or to step outside of the genre, Stuart Dybeck’s – sense of the exhausting intimacy of poor neighborhoods…an unshakably engrossing read… Love is vibrant and clear-eyed, an exciting new west coast observer.’
* New York Times Book Reviews *'A tough, enterprising and vulnerable heroine, Lola gives the reader an unvarnished insight into ghetto life.'
* Sunday Times Crime Club *'A brilliant debut, a bleak and cynical noir set in the patriarchal gangland world of LA's South Central, with smack-dealer Lola pulling her gang's strings as she does whatever it takes to survive.'
* Irish Times *'A gritty, tightly plotted masterpiece that doubles as a whirlwind tour of some of the many different sections and tribes of L.A.'
* Los Angeles Weekly *'An unbelievably smart mystery.'
* Newsweek *‘A fine, brutal debut thriller.’
* Mail on Sunday *'Stunning... This powerful read is at once an intelligently crafted mystery, a reflection on the cycles of violence and addiction, and a timely mediation on the double standard facing women in authority.'
* Publishers Weekly starred review *'Intense, gritty, and breathlessly paced, Lola is a thriller that’s been elevated by exquisite writing and deep character development.'
* Booklist *'A glorious invention, the Latina daughter of Lisbeth Salander and Walter White, on a lifelong tear of revenge after being pimped by her mother for drugs and then living with the double invisibility of her gender and her race.'
* Kirkus *'I fell hard for Lola in all her fierce and broken beauty, her reckless and necessary hardness, her bottomless capacity for loyalty. Don’t miss this ride.'
* Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of The Opposite of Everyone *'A gritty, fast-paced thriller rife with gangland intrigue layered over a moving story of absolution.'
* Booklist *'One of the best written crime dramas to be published in quite some time.'
* Associated Press *‘An absorbing tale that blends compassion and a bracing realpolitik into a fascinating account of one woman’s unquenchable will to not only survive but thrive.’
* Irish Times *'Lola is a stunning debut. A taut, tightly written thriller with a truly original and compelling central character.’
* Crimesquad *'A superlative debut by a US author, set in the underbelly of gangland Los Angeles, with all the hallmarks of a future classic... Raw, fast-paced and compelling, a stunning portrait of a woman in charge and deadlier than the male. So much more than a tale of drugs and Cartels and patch wars, Scrivner Love's novel, like last year's award-winning Dodgers by Bill Beverly takes the clichés of crime and turns them them into storytelling gold.’
* LoveReading *'But Scrivner Love does better than Steig Larsson by creating a female character who is not just standing up to males, she’s actually reconstructing gender for herself and her community.'
* Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel *'I have never read anything like Lola, magical and microscopic in scope... An unforgettable book about a smart woman, the way her mind works, her heart too. Melissa Scrivner Love is bursting with talent and style.'
* Caroline Kepnes, author of You *
‘A raw, dark and claustrophobic tale, but also a powerful and moving one. The prose is superb, the storytelling deft and the pace left me feeling a little feverish.’
* Gilly Macmillan, author of What She Knew *
'With prose that's just a joy to read and a protagonist I'd welcome in my corner any time, Lola is a terrific first novel, one of the best I've come across in years.'
* SJ Rozan, Edgar-winning author of Ghost Hero *'The plot too, encompassing as it does this plucky little gang and its leader trying to outwit a Mexican drug cartel and various double crosses, is engaging and page-turning. All in all, this is a great read.'
* Crimenovelreader *Melissa Scrivner Love was born to a police officer father and a court stenographer mother. After earning a master's degree in English Literature from New York University, Melissa moved to Los Angeles, where she has lived for over a decade. She is an Edgar Award-nominated screenwriter who has written for television shows, among them Life, CSI: Miami and Person of Interest. She and her husband welcomed their daughter in 2014. Lola is her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786073327 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786073323 |
| Title | Lola |
| Author | Melissa Scrivner Love |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oneworld Publications |
| Year published | 2018-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award. |
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