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31 Bond Street
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780061773976
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Mar 1 2011
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
The skill with which Ellen Horan has braided true crime with thoughtful novelizing is pure pleasure. . . . Caleb Carr meets Scott Turow. What could possibly be better? -- Beverly Swerling, author of City of God
An impressive blend of imagination and history as it vividly brings to life one of New York's City's most notorious crimes. -- Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena
At once a gripping mystery and a richly detailed excavation of a lost age, 31 Bond Street is a spellbinding tale of murder, sex, greed, and politics in 1857 New York. Author Ellen Horan interweaves fact and fiction--reimagining the sensational nineteenth-century brutal murder that rocked the city a few short years before the Civil War ripped through the fabric of the nation, while transporting readers back to a time that eerily echoes our own.
Though there are no clues to the slaying of wealthy Dr. Harvey Burdell, suspicion quickly falls on Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed his house and servants. An ambitious district attorney seeks a swift conviction, but defense attorney Henry Clinton is a formidable obstacle--a man firmly committed to justice and the law, and to the cause of a frightened, vulnerable woman desperately trying to save herself from the gallows.
Fans of Caleb Carr's The Alienist, Edith Wharton's The House of Myrth, and John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will love the stunning prose and beautiful imagery of this riveting novel.
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