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Rough Trade

Rough Trade

Carrasco, Katrina

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral GLBTQIA FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1250371864
ISBN13: 9781250371867
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.93
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.71 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Awards

Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel
Named a Best Crime Novel of the Year by The New York Times and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Autostraddle

Alma Rosales is back and trouble is hot on her heels in this thrilling, queer historical novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Best Bad Things.

Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad and a buyer's market funneling product their way, ex-detective Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spend their days moving crates and their nights at the Monte Carlo, the center of Tacoma's queer scene, where skirts and trousers don't signify and everyone's free to suit themselves. And Alma, who is living as a hardscrabble stevedore called Jack Camp, knows this most of all.

When two local men end up dead, all signs point to the opium trade. A botched effort to disappear the bodies draws the attention of lawmen, and although Alma scrambles to keep them away from her operation, she's distracted by the surprise appearance of Bess Spencer--an ex-Pinkerton agent and Alma's first love--after years of silence. Then a handsome young stranger, Ben Velásquez, rolls into town and falls into an affair with one of Alma's crewmen. When Ben starts asking questions about opium, Alma begins to suspect she has welcomed a spy into her inner circle, and she's forced to consider how far she'll go to protect her trade.

Katrina Carrasco plunges readers into the vivid, rough-and-tumble world of the late-1800s Pacific Northwest in this genre and gender-blurring novel. Rough Trade follows Carrasco's critically acclaimed debut, The Best Bad Things, and reimagines queer communities, the turbulent early days of modern media and medicine, and the pleasures--and price--of satisfying desire.

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