New Thriller In Town BY KATRINA MEDOFF @KatrinaMedof @katya_m22 We have good news for western Queens fans of thrillers like “The Girl on the Train”: there’s a new novel in town, and, in fact, it just happens to be set in our town. “Love Her Madly,” a novel by M. Elizabeth Lee, just hit the shelves, and the last third of the book is set in Astoria. Lee lives in Jackson Heights now, but she was an Astoria resident at the time she penned the novel. “When I was writing the book in Astoria, I could imagine these characters walking the streets and waiting for the train next to me,” Lee said. In “Love Her Madly,” two college friends, Glo and Cyn, fall for the same guy, Raj. They decide to share him, and everything goes smoothly — at first. But tension between the best friends boils over during a study abroad trip to Costa Rica, and then Cyn disappears, leaving Glo searching for answers. The novel is told from Glo's point of view. “It’s a thriller and a bit of a mystery, but it’s also got a strong emotional core,” Lee said. “At the core of the story is the friendship between these two women.” Years after Cyn’s disappearance, Glo, an attorney, and Raj, an actor, are living together in Astoria. They begin having sightings in Manhattan of a woman who looks like Cyn. “In Manhattan, that’s where they have most of the sightings of this woman they think might be their dead friend,” Lee said. “When the main character is back in Astoria, that’s where they feel safe, because that’s where they moved to, they settled down and started their lives and it feels like everything’s going to be OK there, but even that is an illusion.” 32 I BOROMAG.COM I SEPTEMBER 2016 ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT Image courtesy of M. Elizabeth Lee
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