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What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
4.0

Raised in isolation in a remote Montana cabin, Jane grows up steeped in her father’s utopian ideals— until a violent act shatters everything she thought she knew.

WHAT KIND OF PARADISE is the kind of slow-burn, morally tangled literary mystery I love in the summer: tense, interior, propulsive. Set against the birth of the internet age, Jane’s journey probes what happens when inherited beliefs collide with a world newly shaped by technology and fertile for online extremism.

For fans of WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy and MIRACLE CREEK by Angie Kim, Janelle Brown delivers a prescient story as emotionally resonant as it is suspenseful—one that asks what we carry from the past, what we choose to reject, and who we become when the ground beneath us shifts.