City of Secrets
A Mystery
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Miranda Corbie is back in this sequel to City of Dragons.
"Impressive... Stanley's hard-boiled, strong female sleuth stalks Hammett's San Francisco and does the job with all the panache of Sam Spade. Readers will eagerly await the next installment in this exciting new series." --Booklist (starred)
When Pandora Blake is murdered at San Francisco's 1940 World Fair and her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Miranda is soon entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal that is only overshadowed by the threat of impending war. With a strong female protagonist more steel than silk and a mystery that will grip you until the last page, this sequel to the critically-acclaimed City of Dragons will appeal to fans of noir and historical mysteries.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
PI Miranda Corbie searches for the killer of two young women, both stabbed to death with an ice pick, both with an ethnic slur written in blood on their bodies, in Stanley's bleak, noirish sequel to City of Dragons (2010). Working for the lawyer of the accused murderer, a corrupt cop who's apparently been set up, Miranda follows clues through the San Francisco of 1940, a city that seethes with racial hatred, is riddled by police corruption, and vigorously hosts an unsavory night life. Headlines from the war in Europe sound a recurrent note of impending doom. The deeply cynical Miranda, scarred by early abuse and a lover's death, is in danger of spinning out of control as she fights her own neuroses and addictions. In best pulp fiction style, suspects lounge about with slick hair and cheap suits, blondes are chain-smoking broads, and the nightclubs are smoky and languid.
