“As you read this remarkable first novel you will feel the room temperature drop. Don’t start this novel at night if you need your beauty sleep-you’ll stay up to all hours devouring its pages.” -Alice LaPlante, New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind “This eerie and compelling debut is a riveting page-turner, narrated by a strangely hypnotic yet dubious young woman who works as a typist for the NYPD in the 1920s. The best book I’ve read so far this summer.”- Greenwich Time “If you liked Gone Girl, you might enjoy. She captures it quite well, while at the same time spinning a delicate and suspenseful narrative about false friendship, obsession, and life for single women in New York during Prohibition.” - Booklist “With hints toward The Great Gatsby, Rindell’s novel aspires to recreate Prohibition-era New York City, both its opulence and its squalid underbelly. Ripley in this psychological thriller by first-time author Rindell.”-Los Angeles Public Library's Best Fiction of 2013 “It's The Great Gatsby meets The Talented Mr. "Rindell's debut is a cinematic page-turner." - Publishers Weekly A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell’s debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.
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