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City of Liars and Thieves
Eve Karlin
Alibi
January 2015
On Sale: January 13, 2015
Featuring: Catherine Ring; Elma Sands
258 pages ISBN: 1101883057 EAN: 9781101883051 Kindle: B00LYXY076 e-Book
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Mystery Historical
A crime that rocked a city. A case that stunned a nation.
Based on the United States’ first recorded murder trial,
Eve
Karlin’s spellbinding debut novel re-creates early
nineteenth-century New York City, where a love affair ends
in a brutal murder and a conspiracy involving Alexander
Hamilton and Aaron Burr erupts in shattering violence.
It is high time to tell the truth. Time for justice. . . .
How she was murdered and why she haunts me. It is not only
Elma’s story, it’s mine.
On the bustling docks of the Hudson River, Catherine Ring
waits with her husband and children for the ship carrying
her cousin, Elma Sands. Their Greenwich Street
boardinghouse
becomes a haven for Elma, who has at last escaped the
stifling confines of her small hometown and the shameful
circumstances of her birth. But in the summer of 1799,
Manhattan remains a teeming cesspool of stagnant swamps
and
polluted rivers. The city is desperate for clean water as
fires wreak devastation and the death toll from yellow
fever
surges.
Political tensions are rising, too. It’s an election year,
and Alexander Hamilton is hungry for power. So is his
rival,
Aaron Burr, who has announced the formation of the
Manhattan
Water Company. But their private struggle becomes very
public when the body of Elma Sands is found at the bottom
of
a city well built by Burr’s company.
Resolved to see justice done, Catherine becomes both
witness
and avenger. She soon finds, however, that the shocking
truth behind this trial has nothing to do with guilt or
innocence.
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