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No Going Back

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A People Magazine Best New Book Pick

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by CrimeReads, LitHub, and Book Riot! 

“If you’re looking for a dark, moody, complex thriller with a complex woman protagonist this is your series. I love love love these books."—Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger

From Strand Critics Award winner Sheena Kamal, comes the third novel featuring the brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts whose vendetta against a triad enforcer escalates when he places a target on her daughter's back.

Find your enemy. Before he finds you.

Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers’ surfaces, and for knowing what they’re working hard to keep hidden. Somehow, it’s the people closest to her she has trouble truly connecting with. In the case of Bonnie, the teenage daughter Nora gave up for adoption, she has to keep trying. For Bonnie has a target on her back—and it’s all because of Nora.

Two years ago, Bonnie was kidnapped by the wealthy Zhang family. Though Nora rescued her, she made a powerful enemy in Dao, a mysterious triad enforcer and former head of the Zhangs’ private security. Now Dao is out for revenge, and she needs to track him down in order to keep herself—and Bonnie—safe.

On Dao’s trail, Nora forms an unlikely partnership with Bernard Lam, an eccentric playboy billionaire with his own mysterious grudge to bear, and reunites with Jon Brazuca, ex-cop turned private investigator and Nora’s occasional ally. From Canada to southeast Asia they pursue Dao, uncovering a shadowy criminal cabal. But soon, the trail will lead full circle to Vancouver, the only home Nora’s ever known, and right to the heart of her brutal past.

 
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 24, 2020
      A complicated backstory weighs down Canadian author Kamal’s tiresome third Nora Watts novel (after 2018’s It All Falls Down). Nora’s 17-year-old daughter, Bonnie, believes she’s being followed. Meanwhile, Nora learns that, unbeknownst to her, she barely escaped being killed during her recent stay in Detroit. Nora puts the two incidents together and concludes that her arch nemesis, Dao, a man of great wealth with criminal contacts, is out to get her; her only hope is to get to him first. She’s aided by her loyal friends and her uncanny knack of knowing when people are lying to her. Kamal recaps the first two books in an effort to explain why Nora and Bonnie are being targeted, but the frequent pauses for exposition stop the narrative flow. That the troubled Nora has relatability issues—she prefers the company of her dog to that of most people—is another minus. Those who value humor or wit in their mysteries will have to look elsewhere. Agent: Miriam Kriss, Irene Goodman Agency.

    • Kirkus

      March 1, 2020
      A very bad man has painted a target on Nora Watts' back, and she vows to find him before he finds her...and her daughter, Bonnie. Nora, who has a talent for finding people, missing or otherwise, is back in Vancouver after the events of It All Falls Down (2018), in which she investigated her father's death in Detroit. She hopes to get to know 17-year-old Bonnie, whom she gave up for adoption, and she's also anxious to be reunited with her beloved dog, Whisper. But where Nora goes, trouble usually follows. An ex-soldier named Dao has put a bounty on her head and has no qualms about using Bonnie to get to her. After all, she killed his lover and his previous employer two years ago. Nora plans to take on this threat herself, but despite her best efforts to keep everyone she knows from getting too close, she's got a few allies who don't plan on letting her tackle this alone. PI and ex-cop (and Nora's former lover and AA sponsor) Jon Brazuca joins the search no matter how much Nora tries to shake him, and he realizes that he's still carrying a torch for her. Brazuca has a few extra tools at his disposal, namely the resources made available by the security firm that employs him as well as billionaire former client Bernard Lam, who has his own motives for pursuing Dao. The few breadcrumbs they find lead Nora, Brazuca, and Lam to Indonesia, where they hatch a plot to snare Dao. Nora has a suspicion she might be the bait, but she's not about to let him get to Bonnie. In Kamal's third book to feature Nora, the author hints at the possibility of brighter days ahead for her complicated heroine, if only Nora can stop the man who harbors a deep hatred of her and who won't stop until she's dead. It's worth noting that Kamal has never been one for overly neat endings. Don't expect her to start now. Fans of Elizabeth Hand's Cass Neary and Kristen Lepionka's Roxane Weary will especially find a lot to like. A dynamic addition to a consistently thrilling series.

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    • Booklist

      March 1, 2020
      Recovering alcoholic Nora Watts returns in the third novel (following It All Falls Down, 2018) in Kamal's series. Nora is again compelled to atone for past wrongs, and to try to create future happiness, by saving Bonnie, the daughter she gave up for adoption years before. Though Bonnie is only dimly aware of the danger she's in, a far-too-capable underworld figure called Dao seeks to harm her. While Nora is well aware of the peril facing her family, she's unclear on why Dao won't recede into her past. But she wastes no time in putting all of her surveillance and subterfuge tricks to work. The book quickly hits top gear, with Nora alternately leaning on friends and associates and braving danger alone to fight for Bonnie, not to mention to save herself. Some of the male characters aren't greatly distinguished from each other here, but the action is the draw, and it doesn't let up. Fans of thrillers starring strong women will enjoy this Vancouver-set story of love facing down evil.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

    • Library Journal

      November 1, 2019

      In The Lost Ones, Kamal's best-selling, multi-award-winning debut novel, feisty Nora was asked to rescue Bonnie, the teenage daughter she gave up for adoption, after Bonnie's kidnapping by the wealthy Zhang family. Now Nora has a bitter enemy in triad enforcer Dao, former head of the Zhangs' private security, and goes after him to protect both herself and Bonnie. Third in a series; with a 75,000-copy paperback and 25,000-copy hardcover first printing.

      Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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