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Coup de coeur
(Mystery/True Crime), by Frankie
It's 1922, and Cahokia is in full swing with speakeasies, dancing and jazz.
Located beside the Mississippi, Cahokia is a busy industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed in peace, more or less...
But that body on the roof is about to set off a week that will spill the city's secrets against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire.
Newcomer to the scene Detective Joe Barrow must now solve the mystery of the staged killing before its repercussions destroy the citys social and political order.
The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically scaled tale set in the golden age of wicked entertainments.
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on - a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city's secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth. The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically scaled tale set in the golden age of wicked entertainments.