Title: Frog music
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"--
Subjects: Women dancers, Asesinato, Family Life, Crime, Literary, Danzarinas, Investigacio n criminal, Investigation, Novela, Historical, General, FICTION, Murder, Investigación criminal, Fiction, historical, Crime, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Family Life, FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Literary, Jealousy, Detective and mystery fiction, Friendship, Criminal investigation, Lesbian fiction, Secrets, Poverty, Historical fiction, Songs, Smallpox, History, Bisacsh, Englisch, Roman, Social conditions, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-04-20, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, historical, general, Women detectives
Places: San Francisco (Calif.), California, San Francisco
People: A. Andrae, Englisch, ...
Time periods: 19th century, Siglo XIX, San Francisco