LIZ MOORE’s first novel, The Words of Every Song (2007), explores a fictional record company in New York City and was selected for Borders’ Original Voices program. The New Yorker praised the original voice of her second novel, Heft (2012). Following her MFA from Hunter College and a residency at the University of Pennsylvania, Moore published The Unseen World (2016), which garnered accolades from The New York Times and was included in numerous “Best of 2016” lists. Her fourth novel, Long Bright River (2020), was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. The God of the Woods, Moore’s literary thriller, was The New York Times best crime novel of 2024. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature and an Edgar Award and L.A. Times Book Prize nominee, Moore lives in Philadelphia, where she directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University

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Liz Moore’s novels are irresistible. Her most recent, The God of the Woods, a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2024 and People magazine’s #1 Book of the Year, is a complex and riveting thriller, touching on issues of class and loss and survival. From the minute a young camp counselor goes missing until the final resolution, you find yourself in a propulsive character-driven whodunit—all the while being awed by the author’s ambition and craft.

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