The Wicked City, Beatriz Williams
The Wicked City, Beatriz Williams
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The Wicked City
A Novel

Author: Beatriz Williams

Narrator: Julie McKay, Dara Rosenberg

Unabridged: 13 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/17/2017


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams recreates the New York City of A Certain Age in this deliciously spicy adventure that mixes past and present and centers on a Jazz Age love triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper, and a debonair Princetonian from a wealthy family.When she discovers her husband cheating, Ella Hawthorne impulsively moves out of their SoHo loft and into a small apartment in an old Greenwich Village building. Her surprisingly attractive new neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement at night. Tenants have reported strange noises after midnight—laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano—even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the place hid a speakeasy. In 1924, Geneva ""Gin"" Kelly, a smart-mouthed flapper from the hills of western Maryland, is a regular at this Village hideaway known as the Christopher Club. Caught up in a raid, Gin becomes entangled with Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver Anson, who persuades her to help him catch her stepfather Duke Kelly, one of Appalachia’s most notorious bootleggers.Headstrong and independent, Gin is no weak-kneed fool. So how can she be falling in love with the taciturn, straight-arrow Revenue agent when she’s got Princeton boy Billy Marshall, the dashing son of society doyenne Theresa Marshall, begging to make an honest woman of her? While anything goes in the Roaring Twenties, Gin’s adventures will shake proper Manhattan society to its foundations, exposing secrets that shock even this free-spirited redhead—secrets that will echo from Park Avenue to the hollers of her Southern hometown.As Ella discovers more about the basement speakeasy, she becomes inspired by the spirit of her exuberant predecessor, and decides to live with abandon in the wicked city too. . . .

About Beatriz Williams

Beatriz Williams is the bestselling author of over a dozen novels, including The Beach at Summerly, Our Woman in Moscow, and The Summer Wives, as well as four other novels cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on February 07, 2017

The Wicked City is the first installment in a fabulous new series by Beatriz Williams. The story takes place on a dual timeline – in 1924 and in 1998. The plot is complicated so I will not retell the entire story here. While I liked both story lines a lot, my favorite was the Jazz Age 1920’s plot. G......more

Goodreads review by Alayne on December 25, 2019

This book was brilliant, so different to other books I’ve read. I’ve read only one or two of Beatrix Williams books as they are so difficult to get hold off over here but when I saw this and the next one in the series on Amazon, I couldn’t resist. I’m glad I did as it is the sort of book which keeps......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on February 25, 2022

I have enjoyed all of the books by this author I have read so far and this one did not disappoint. I love dual timeline historical fiction, although I am a little annoyed that a lot of the connections won’t be apparent until future books. I thought it started a bit slowly, but I did enjoy the ending......more