All We Hide
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- Expected 4 Aug 2026
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- 12,99 €
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- Pre-Order
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- 12,99 €
Publisher Description
In this twisty and poignant small-town mystery, a trans detective working for the District Attorney’s Office takes on the cold case murder of a local trans woman—and her investigation unravels the threads of a county-wide conspiracy as well as a personal mystery that’s haunted her since childhood.
When Lieutenant Lauren Kelly is exiled to the Homicide Cold Case Unit at the DA’s office, she knows her superiors are sticking her there as punishment until she can quietly retire. That way, no one can claim they discriminated against the only trans detective in Donn County.
Even though Lauren has enough on her plate already—a teenage daughter struggling with Lauren’s recent transition, an ex-wife Lauren hasn’t gotten over, a former detective father with Alzheimer’s—she starts looking into the murder of Sherry Darling, a trans sex worker and Lauren’s former high school classmate. As Lauren looks deeper into Sherry’s case, she finds evidence of a cover-up with far-reaching implications that may or may not be tied to the reason her mother left decades earlier.
Entertaining and deeply human, All We Hide is a compelling, page-turning mystery that will resonate in the hearts and minds of readers long after the final twist.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This proficient series launch from Gigl (Nothing but the Truth) introduces Lauren Kelly, a transgender detective for the DA's office in the fictional town of Harrison. Haunted by her mother's disappearance when Lauren was five years old and her detective father's emotional abuse, Lauren has faced prejudice nearly her whole life. Her recent promotion to head of the DA's homicide cold case unit is as much a political calculation as a nod to her abilities, and she knows it. Still, she throws herself into her first case: the unsolved 2001 murder of Sherry Darling, a trans woman and high school acquaintance of Lauren's who was saving money from drag shows and sex work for gender-affirming surgery. Sherry's boyfriend was wrongly convicted of the murder but acquitted after a lawyer uncovered suppressed DNA evidence and police misconduct. Lauren interviews old classmates, uncovers evidence of departmental bias, and faces escalating hostility from the original investigation's lead detective. When a forensic breakthrough points to a conspiracy involving one of Sherry's last clients, Lauren's pursuit of justice threatens to expose secrets within Harrison's corridors of power. Gigl pairs layered characters with sturdy sleuthing, but pacing issues and off-page resolutions undercut the story's power. Still, it's a diverting and often moving procedural.
