Why read Nightshade?

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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland.

But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty…

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Why read it?

2 authors picked Nightshade as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Eileen Goudge

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It has all my favorite elements of fiction: an intriguing location (Catalina Island), a propulsive narrative, and characters you’d want to have coffee with, or throw from a bridge, as the case may be.

The Catalina Island of Nightshade is the Island of Misfit Toys for the disgraced cops who secure it. Its protagonist, Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell, battles bad guys, both criminal and law enforcement, while battling his own demons. And he makes patrolling his beat in a golf cart, the sole motorized transport permitted on Catalina, seem badass.

If they make a movie of this novel, I’d love to…

From Eileen's list on The best books to read on a long flight to make you forget you’re in Coach.

Andrew Welsh-Huggins

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Connelly has perfected the ability to draw readers into police investigations in a perfectly objective fashion, without resorting to "copaganda" and leaving you guessing until the end.

From Andrew's 3 favorite reads in 2025.