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Beyond the Pale - winner of the Lambda Literary Award - tells the stories of two Jewish women living through times of darkness and inhumanity in the early 20th century, capturing their undaunted love and courage in luminous and moving prose. The richly textured novel details Gutke Gurvich's odyssey from her apprenticeship as a midwife in a Russian shtetl to her work in the suffrage movement in New York.

Some cases make her want to quit . . . This is one of them. Detective Luce Allen doesn't give up, ever, even though the murder of a child is testing her resolve, and Kendra is still recovering from recent trauma. Her relief at identifying a suspect quickly is short-lived when the case begins to...