From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: "Her greatest achievement yet...Emma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music -- she shows genius."- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life.

Summer of 1876: 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 Jenny's murderer to justice -- if he doesn't 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. It's 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 hunts.

In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 04/01/2014
ISBN: 9780316324687
Pages: 405
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.41w x 1.41d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2013 pg. 66
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2013
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2013
Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 94
Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2014 pg. 47
Booklist 02/01/2014 pg. 29
Quill & Quire 04/01/2014 pg. 31
Entertainment Weekly 04/04/2014 pg. 66
People Weekly 04/07/2014 pg. 53
Shelf Awareness 04/08/2014
New Yorker (The) 05/19/2014 pg. 91
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2015 pg. 10
BookPage 04/01/2014
Library Journal 11/01/2013