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'An atmospheric portrait of a city as well as a compelling crime story'
GuardianAt the top of the Empire State Building on a freezing December night, two women are waiting for the man who has wronged them. They plan to seek the ultimate revenge.
Set over the course of a single night,
One Night, New York is a murder mystery as well as a love story. It is also a portrait of old New York, of bohemian Greenwich Village between the wars, of floozies and artists and addicts, of a city that sucked in creatives and immigrants alike, lighting up the world, while all around America burned amid the heat of the Great Depression.
'A page-turner with style' Erin Kelly
'An assured debut so evocative you can almost smell the bathtub gin wafting off the pages'
Red'Thompson's impressive debut delivers a beautifully detailed and multifaceted account of Jazz Age New York'
Irish Times
About the author
Lara Thompson beat hundreds of applicants to win the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award competition with the manuscript of her first novel, ONE NIGHT NEW YORK. Lara is a lecturer in film at Middlesex University and she drew on her love of film noir, the photography of Berenice Abbot and her own family history for its backdrop. Born in Cornwall, she now lives in London.
Summary
A delicious detective story set in 1930s New York, and the winner of the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award.
Foreword
A delicious detective story set in 1930s New York, and the winner of the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award.
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A riveting novel which transports us back to 1932 in the city that never sleeps
