Thank you, once again, to 48 Hours executive producer Susan Zirinsky. I simply could not have finished this book on time had you not supported me the entire way.
Thank you to my friends and colleagues at CBSNews.com, especially the Crimesider team—Erin Donoghue, Branden Cobb, Barry Leibowitz, and Stephanie Slifer—for putting up with my extended absences and creating a newsroom that feels like home.
Thank you to Chuck Lewis, Wendell Cochran, Lynne Perri, and the rest of the faculty at the American University School of Communications. If I could send Rebekah to get a journalism degree from you, I would.
Thank you to Stephen Handelman, Ted Gest, and Cara Tabachnick at the Center on Media, Crime and Justice. Working for you at The Crime Report was the greatest professional learning experience of my life.
Thank you to Hindy Sabel, Zelda Deutsch, Saul Friedman, and, once again, Pearl Reich, for sharing your stories and your time with me.
In the year since Invisible City was published, I have spent a lot of time talking and writing about my Jewish-Lutheran heritage, and sharing fairly intimate details about my upbringing and extended family. Thank you to my parents, Bill and Barbara Dahl, and my sister, Susan Sharer, for encouraging me to tell these stories. I’ve heard from lots of people how “special” our family must have been to sustain a happy, healthy two-religion home; I tell them, you have no idea.
Thank you to Lori, Libby, and Jerry Bukiewicz. You have loved and supported me from the moment we were introduced. I am lucky to be a part of your family. This book is dedicated to my husband, Joel Bukiewicz—the bravest man I know.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JULIA DAHL is a journalist specializing in crime and criminal justice. Her first novel, Invisible City, was named one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014 and was a finalist for an Edgar Award and a Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and writes for CBSNews.com. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Part 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Part 2
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Part 3
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Julia Dahl
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
RUN YOU DOWN. Copyright © 2015 by Julia Dahl. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Run you down / Julia Dahl. — First edition.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-250-04340-5 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-4192-5 (ebook)
1. Jewish women—Fiction. 2. Women journalists—Fiction. 3. Hasidim—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 4. Jewish families—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 5. Murder—Investigation—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3604.A339R86 2015
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20105011402
eISBN 9781466841925
First Edition: June 2015