Miracle Creek
“Miracle Creek grabbed me hard right from the start. This is a terrific courtroom thriller, a sly whodunit that’s beautifully written and also full of heart.”
Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author
An April 2019 LibraryReads Pick
A Crime Reads Pick of Best Book of the Year
An Amazon Best Book of the Month selection
A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
An Indie Next List selection
A Southern Living Magazine Pick of Best Books of Spring
An AudioFile Editors’ Pick
Finalist for the 2020 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel
A Time Magazine Best Book of the year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year
A Today Show Pick of the Year
Finalist for the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel
Shortlisted for the 2020 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery
Among shortlisted titles for Thriller Awards - Nominee, 2020
Winner of Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner, 2020
Winner of Thriller Awards - Winner, 2020
Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2019
Among longlisted titles for Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year, 2019
Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2019
Nominated for Anthony Awards - Nominee, 2020
Among longlisted titles for Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2019
Nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee, 2020
Among shortlisted titles for Thriller Awards - Nominee, 2020
Winner of Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner, 2020
Winner of Thriller Awards - Winner, 2020
Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2019
Among longlisted titles for Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year, 2019
Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2019
Nominated for Anthony Awards - Nominee, 2020
Among longlisted titles for Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2019
Nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee, 2020
This program includes a bonus interview with the author and original music composed and performed by Steve Draughn.
A thrilling debut about how far we’ll go to protect our families—and our deepest secrets.
My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first...
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine—a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives” with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos’ small community.
Who or what caused the explosion? Was it the mother of one of the patients, who claimed to be sick that day but was smoking down by the creek? Or was it Young and Pak themselves, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? The ensuing trial uncovers unimaginable secrets from that night—trysts in the woods, mysterious notes, child-abuse charges—as well as tense rivalries and alliances among a group of people driven to extraordinary degrees of desperation and sacrifice.
Angie Kim’s Miracle Creek is a thoroughly contemporary take on the courtroom drama, drawing on the author’s own life as a Korean immigrant, former trial lawyer, and mother of a real-life “submarine” patient. Both a compelling page-turner and an excavation of identity and the desire for connection, Miracle Creek is a brilliant, empathetic debut from an exciting new voice.
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