One Night, New York - Lara Thompson

One Night, New York

'A page turner with style' (Erin Kelly)

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2022
Virago Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-349-01110-3 (ISBN)
11,20 inkl. MwSt
A delicious detective story set in 1930s New York, and the winner of the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award.
'ONE NIGHT, NEW YORK transports the reader to the glitter and the danger of old New York. A page-turner with style.' ERIN KELLY

'ENTHRALLING' THE TIMES, BEST NEW HISTORICAL FICTION

A THRILLING DEBUT NOVEL OF CORRUPTION AND MURDER, SET IN THE NIGHTCLUBS, TENEMENTS AND SKYSCRAPERS OF 1930s NEW YORK - FROM THE WINNER OF THE VIRAGO/THE POOL NEW CRIME WRITER AWARD.

At the top of the Empire State Building on a freezing December night, two women hold their breath. Frances and Agnes are waiting for the man who has wronged them. They plan to seek the ultimate revenge.

Set over the course of a single night, One Night, New York is a detective story, a romance and a coming-of-age tale. It is also a story of old New York, of bohemian Greenwich Village between the wars, of floozies and artists and addicts, of a city that sucked in creatives and immigrants alike, lighting up the world, while all around America burned amid the heat of the Great Depression.

'An atmospheric portrait of a city in the grip of the Great Depression as well as a compelling crime story' GUARDIAN

'Thompson's impressive debut delivers a beautifully detailed and multifaceted account of Jazz Age New York' IRISH TIMES

'An assured debut so evocative you can almost smell the bathtub gin wafting off the pages' RED MAGAZINE

Lara Thompson beat hundreds of applicants to win the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award competition with the manuscript of her first novel, ONE NIGHT NEW YORK. Lara is a lecturer in film at Middlesex University and she drew on her love of film noir, the photography of Berenice Abbot and her own family history for its backdrop. Born in Cornwall, she now lives in London.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 126 x 198 mm
Gewicht 260 g
Themenwelt Literatur Krimi / Thriller / Horror Historische Kriminalromane
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 0-349-01110-9 / 0349011109
ISBN-13 978-0-349-01110-3 / 9780349011103
Zustand Neuware
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