Lori Roy

Jun 25, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Lori Roy |Max Brooks |Paul G Tremblay

A nightmarish Southern noir in which everyone pays a price. In this odd reimagining of the Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jeane Baker story, small-town Florida teen Addie’s dream of visiting Hollywood for her 18th birthday with Aunt Jean, her mother’s best friend, is shattered by violence. Aunt Jean, as she does with some regularity, has traveled to the (fictional) town of Hockta to “[claw] her way back to normal” in her friend’s care after one of her downward slides.

Jun 9, 2024 | bostonherald.com | Lori Roy

“Lake County” opens with the aroma of orange blossoms, but it’s not long before you catch the scent of death. This book, the sixth historical thriller by Lori Roy, captures 1950s Florida so evocatively you might break into a sweat while you read it. Or that could be a reaction to its tense and tightly woven Southern noir plot. She kicks off the tension in the very first pages with a nerve-wracking scene in, of all places, a grocery store.

Jun 9, 2024 | thedailynewsonline.com | Lori Roy

“Lake County” opens with the aroma of orange blossoms, but it’s not long before you catch the scent of death. This book, the sixth historical thriller by St. Petersburg writer Lori Roy, captures 1950s Florida so evocatively you might break into a sweat while you read it. Or that could be a reaction to its tense and tightly woven Southern noir plot. kAm#@J’D 7:G6 62C=:6C ?@G6=D[ :?4=F5:?8 E96 t582C pH2C5 H:??6CD “q6?E #@25” 2?5 “{6E |6 s:6 :? w:D u@@EDE6AD[” 2== 92G6 CFC2= @C D>2==\E@H?

Jun 9, 2024 | thelcn.com | Lori Roy

“Lake County” opens with the aroma of orange blossoms, but it’s not long before you catch the scent of death. This book, the sixth historical thriller by St. Petersburg writer Lori Roy, captures 1950s Florida so evocatively you might break into a sweat while you read it. Or that could be a reaction to its tense and tightly woven Southern noir plot. kAm#@J’D 7:G6 62C=:6C ?@G6=D[ :?4=F5:?8 E96 t582C pH2C5 H:??6CD “q6?E #@25” 2?5 “{6E |6 s:6 :? w:D u@@EDE6AD[” 2== 92G6 CFC2= @C D>2==\E@H?

Jun 6, 2024 | crimereads.com | Lori Roy

“The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.” Richard Price said that. His advice, which I think of often, was top-of-mind when Marilyn Monroe came tapping on my computer screen and wanting to step into my latest novel. To write about a person who is arguably the world’s greatest icon did not pass the “write small to write big” test. But Marilyn persisted. While driving through downtown, I passed a building that showcases one of many murals here in St. Petersburg, Florida.