{"product_id":"pasadena-smith-pb","title":"Pasadena","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Beautiful clothes, bad habits, ugly secrets: Sherri L. Smith probes the vulnerable underbellies of a lot of toothy sharks in this page-turning California noir.\"—E. Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBad things happen everywhere. Even in the land of sun and roses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jude's best friend is found dead in a swimming pool, her family calls it an accident. Her friends call it suicide. But Jude calls it what it is: murder. And someone has to pay. Now everyone is a suspect—family and friends alike. And Jude is digging up the past like bones from a shallow grave. Anything to get closer to the truth. But that's the thing about secrets. Once they start turning up, nothing is sacred. And Jude's got a few skeletons of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a homage to the great noir stories of Los Angeles, award-winning author Sherri L. Smith's Pasadena is a tale of love, damage and salvation set against the backdrop of California's City of Roses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Enthralling! . . . Smith has created a world that is at once startlingly real and heartbreakingly unreal. Smith’s novel had me leaning forward in my seat trying to remember to breathe.\" —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Speak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50141916725525,"sku":"59897210000","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/2470\/9987\/files\/9781101996263.jpg?v=1791687032","url":"https:\/\/topsyturvytoys.pro\/products\/pasadena-smith-pb","provider":"Child's Play Toys and Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}