Ellen Horan Livres

Ellen Horan insuffle une vie étonnamment fraîche aux personnages historiques, comme s'ils venaient de sortir tout droit de son imagination débordante. Ses récits sont captivants et élégamment écrits, mêlant des thrillers judiciaires à des aperçus pointus sur le sexe, la classe et la politique. Horan fusionne magistralement la fiction historique, le drame judiciaire et les événements réels en des histoires criminelles fascinantes, démontrant son talent exceptionnel de conteuse. S'appuyant sur son parcours artistique et historique, elle crée un style littéraire unique qui plonge les lecteurs dans les époques révolues.

31 Bond Street
352pages
13 heures de lecture
3,5(32)Évaluer
Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell in his opulent Manhattan town house? At once a gripping mystery and a richly detailed excavation of a lost age, 31 Bond Street is a spellbinding tale of murder, sex, greed, and politics in 1857 New York. Author Ellen Horan interweaves fact and fiction--reimagining the sensational nineteenth-century crime that rocked the city a few short years before the Civil War ripped through the fabric of the nation, while transporting readers back to a time that eerily echoes our own. Though there are no clues to the brutal slaying of wealthy Dr. Burdell, suspicion quickly falls on Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed his house and servants. An ambitious district attorney seeks a swift conviction, but defense attorney Henry Clinton is a formidable obstacle--a man firmly committed to justice and the law, and to the cause of a frightened, vulnerable woman desperately trying to save herself from the gallows.
31 Bond Street. A Novel
3,5(77)Évaluer
Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell in his opulent Manhattan town house? At once a gripping mystery and a richly detailed excavation of a lost age, 31 Bond Street is a spellbinding tale of murder, sex, greed, and politics in 1857 New York. Author Ellen Horan interweaves fact and fiction—reimagining the sensational nineteenth-century crime that rocked the city a few short years before the Civil War ripped through the fabric of the nation, while transporting readers back to a time that eerily echoes our own. Though there are no clues to the brutal slaying of wealthy Dr. Burdell, suspicion quickly falls on Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed his house and servants. An ambitious district attorney seeks a swift conviction, but defense attorney Henry Clinton is a formidable obstacle—a man firmly committed to justice and the law, and to the cause of a frightened, vulnerable woman desperately trying to save herself from the gallows.

31 Bond Street

31 Bond Street. A Novel