Jane Smiley
A Dangerous Business: from the author of the Pulitzer prize winner, A THOUSAND ACRES
A Dangerous Business: from the author of the Pulitzer prize winner, A THOUSAND ACRES
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In the murder mystery "The Dead Girls of Monterey," set in Gold Rush California, two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls to catch the killer while juggling clients and surviving in a lawless town. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin, Eliza pieces together clues to confront the darkness that descends.
Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 12 January 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Smiley is a masterful writer. The Sunday Times praised her as Outstanding. Her sentences are sublime. Roxane Gay, from a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author, presents a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls.
Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well-behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting.
Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious.
Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West—a bewitching combination of beauty and danger—as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon.
As Mrs. Parks says, "Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise." . . .
Weight: 428g
Dimension: 163 x 240 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349145457
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