Discover One of America's Great Unsolved Murder Mysteries
FROG MUSIC
by Emma Donoghue
May 20
10:00 -11:30 am
in Study Room A
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 boom town like no other.This is Donoghue's eighth novel and twelfth book of fiction. A bestseller in Canada before publication, it spent 10 weeks on the Maclean's list of Canadian bestsellers and was a New York Times Bestseller and a bestseller in Ireland too.
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