From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room Her greatest achievement yetEmma Donoghue shows more than range with FROG MUSIC--she shows genius -- Darin Strauss author of Half a LifeSummer of San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic Through the window of a railroad saloon a young woman named 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 Jennys murderer to justice--if he doesnt 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 Its 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 huntsIn thrilling cinematic style FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten never-solved crime Full of songs that migrated across the world Emma Donoghues lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.
