Putnam
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Featuring: Rose Baker
368 pages ISBN: 0399161465 EAN: 9780399161469 Kindle: B00AEBERK4 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
For fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley and The
Great Gatsby comes one of the most memorable unreliable
narrators in years.
Rose Baker seals men’s fates. With a few strokes of the keys
that sit before her, she can send a person away for life in
prison. A typist in a New York City Police Department
precinct, Rose is like a high priestess. Confessions are her
job. It is 1923, and while she may hear every detail about
shootings, knifings, and murders, as soon as she leaves the
interrogation room she is once again the weaker sex, best
suited for filing and making coffee.
This is a
new era for women, and New York is a confusing place for
Rose. Gone are the Victorian standards of what is
acceptable. All around her women bob their hair, they smoke,
they go to speakeasies. Yet prudish Rose is stuck in the
fading light of yesteryear, searching for the nurturing
companionship that eluded her childhood. When glamorous
Odalie, a new girl, joins the typing pool, despite her best
intentions Rose falls under Odalie’s spell. As the two women
navigate between the sparkling underworld of speakeasies by
night and their work at the station by day, Rose is drawn
fully into Odalie’s high-stakes world. And soon her
fascination with Odalie turns into an obsession from which
she may never recover.
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