Author: suzannerindell
A suspenseful and page-turning descent into obsession, love, and murder in the wake of San Francisco’s most deadly earthquake–and Suzanne Rindell’s most haunting novel since her acclaimed debut, The Other TypistWhich wife holds the darker secret?San Francisco, 1906. Violet is one of three people grateful for the destruction of the big earthquake. It leaves her and her two best friends … her and her two best friends unexpectedly wealthy–if the secret that binds them together stays buried beneath the rubble. Fearing discovery, the women strike out on their own, and orphaned, wallflower Violet reinvents herself.When a whirlwind romance with the…
Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch.Louis Thorn and Haruto “Harry” Yamada—Eagle and Crane—are the star attractions of Earl Shaw’s Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The … Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family’s belief that the Yamadas—Japanese immigrants—stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family. When Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen, performing death-defying tricks high above…
“Deliciously addictive” (Kirkus Reviews starred review): In 1920s New York City, typist Rose Baker records criminal confessions for the police — but a mounting obsession could be her downfall. “A cinematic page-turner” (Publishers Weekly).