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

People: A. Andrae,  Englisch, ...

Places: San Francisco (Calif.),  California,  San Francisco

Times: 19th century,  Siglo XIX,  San Francisco