Crime in a Closed Community: Publisher’s Weekly Talks with Julia Dahl

Are you anything like your narrator, Rebekah Roberts? On the surface, yes. I was a freelance reporter for the New York Post for three years and now work for CBSNews.com covering crime. And my mother’s Jewish and my father’s Christian, like Rebekah’s parents. But Rebekah’s personality is different from mine. She’s braver than I am, and angrier.