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Julia Dahl

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Fresno, Calif.

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Julia Dahl was born and raised in Fresno, California and currently lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband and son.

Dahl began her career as a journalist working as a fact-checker at Entertainment Weekly. Since then, she has been an editor at Marie Claire, a freelance reporter at the New York Post, the deputy managing editor of The Crime Report, and a crime and justice reporter for CBS News.

She now teaches journalism at NYU.

Dahl's first novel, INVISIBLE CITY, was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and won the Barry Award, the Shamus Award, and the Macavity Award for Best First Novel. INVISIBLE CITY named one of the Boston Globe's Best Books of 2014, and has been translated into eight languages. ...more

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	Invisible City (Rebekah Roberts, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 5,336 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Missing Hours 3.33 avg rating — 3,938 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Run You Down (Rebekah Roberts, #2) 3.76 avg rating — 2,025 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conviction (Rebekah Roberts, #3) 3.84 avg rating — 1,204 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Dreamed of Falling 3.29 avg rating — 1,243 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 3: New Books to Make Your Heart Race by Hannah Morrissey (Goodreads Author), Kimi Cunningham Grant (Goodreads Author), Julia Dahl (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Minotaur Sampler: Volume 12: by Deborah J. Benoit, Olivia Blacke (Goodreads Author), Michelle Chouinard 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invisible / Glass Kitchen / Invisible City / Journey from Darkness (Reader's Digest Select Editions #337) by Reader's Digest Association, James Patterson (Goodreads Author), Linda Francis Lee (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Invisible City gets a starred review from Publisher's Weekly

I am thrilled to report that Publisher's Weekly gave "Invisible City" a starred review this week!

"Dahl’s convincing dialogue and perfect pacing make for a real page-turner. And her storytelling skills illuminate the intriguing worlds of the tabloid press, Hasidism, the NYPD, and Brooklyn’s 20-somethings—as well as the fragile boundaries of family, religion, and life itself."

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11/22/63 by Stephen King

7 votes, 18.4%

Get Even by Martina Cole

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Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

5 votes, 13.2%

Eden by Candice Fox

4 votes, 10.5%

A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava

4 votes, 10.5%

The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin

4 votes, 10.5%

Invisible City by Julia Dahl

3 votes, 7.9%

One Mile Under by Andrew Gross

2 votes, 5.3%

Split Second by Douglas E. Richards

2 votes, 5.3%

An English Murder by Louise Doughty

1 vote, 2.6%

The Mystery of Granny's Ghost by Neil W.J. Smith

1 vote, 2.6%

Clinch by Martin Holmen

0 votes, 0.0%

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