Long Bright River (2020) is a novel by American writer Liz Moore. The novel quickly became a best seller telling as it does a painful story of drug addiction and violence. It was adapted as a mini-series in 2025.

Mickey is a Philadelphia police patrol officer working in a high-crime area.

When 3 women are found dead, and her ‘superiors’ decide these are suicides rather than homicides, Mickey begins to investigate the deaths.

Mickey and her younger sister Kacey (Ashleigh Cummings) were raised in the kinship care of their grandmother.

Mickey’s son, Thomas, is 4 years old. However, we learn that Thomas is actually the biological son of Kacey. Thomas was removed from Kacey when he was born – by the state – and custody given to Mickey.