Lead Review
- Book: Conviction
- Location: Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
- Author: Julia Dahl
A convincingly penned crime mystery that goes from the 2010s, back mainly to 1994, set against a credibly drawn city, where Brooklyn gets a good look-in.
Rebekah Roberts works on a red top paper and she isn’t altogether happy in her work. She needs something more stimulating to get her teeth into. She received a letter from a convicted murderer – an African American man who was jailed for the murder of his foster family in Crown Heights, Brooklyn – claiming he is innocent of the crime and this might just be the opening she needs.
This is very much a character driven novel, focussing on the clashes between the African Americans and the Orthodox Jewish community. It is about people and motivations, some good, some bad but there are consequences to belief systems and actions. The tensions in the suburbs feel very real. Social injustices are a prominent theme in the novel.
The novel transports the reader to areas with which a casual tourist will be unfamiliar.
A very readable novel of New York.
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