Behind Closed Doors

September 1, 2007
When two masked men break into the Kendallhome and brutally rapeLaura, her husband, Harry, is certain thatthe crime is hate related. He isAfrican American, and Laura is white, and the attackers tell her that white stays with white. Tucson police detective Daniel Boyd isnt initially convinced of the hate-crime connection, so Harry begins his own investigation, which soon leads him to a possible linkto the Ivory Nation, one of Arizonas mostterrifying white-supremacist groups. While Harry searches for justice, Laura struggles to rebuild her life and her marriage, both of which may be destroyed beyond repair. The second in Quinns Ivory Nation trilogy, following In Plain Sight (2006), is an intense, dark, and thought-provokinglook at the damage hatred and fearcause in the world and an affectingdrama that reveals howlove and hopecan heal those same wounds. Combining her usual superb sense of characterization with a realistically gritty plot, Quinn has created an exceptionally powerful book.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)