Frog music

By Emma Donoghue

Subjects: FICTION / General, Investigacio n criminal, Investigation, Novela, FICTION / Family Life, Poverty, Crime, Englisch, General, Fiction, historical, FICTION / Literary, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, historical, general, FICTION, FICTION / Historical, Lesbian fiction, Family Life, Historical fiction, Asesinato, Jealousy, Literary, Crime, fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Murder, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-04-20, Roman, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Investigación criminal, Secrets, Fiction, FICTION / Crime, Historical, Women dancers, Songs, Danzarinas, Stonewall Book Awards, Bisacsh, Social conditions, Smallpox, History, LGBTQ novels, Criminal investigation, Friendship

Description: "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other"--