The fainting room
By: Sarah Pemberton Strong
Publisher: Ig Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781935439769
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Noir fiction; Circus; Married people; Architects; Fiction
Description: Ray Shepard is a wealthy architect who has mystified his friends by marrying Evelyn, a woman who works at a nail salon. Evelyn, in turn, hides a secret past about her former life in the circus, her ex-husband's mysterious death, and the colorful tattoos she carefully conceals under her clothes. When Evelyn starts to cave under the pressure of living in Ray's rarified world, she suggests they take in Ingrid, a sixteen-year-old girl with blue hair, a pet iguana, and no place to stay for the summer. As Evelyn and Ray both make her their confidante, drawing her into the heart of what threatens their marriage, Ingrid increasingly adopts the noir alter ego of "Detective Slade"--Fedora and all--in order to solve the mysteries that engulf all three characters.