Short, Sharon Gwyn
Trouble island a novel Sharon Short - First edition. - New York Minotaur Books 2024 - 327 pages 25 cm
"Many miles from anywhere in the middle of Lake Erie, Trouble Island serves as a stop-off for gangsters as they run between America and Canada. The remote isle is also the permanent home to two women: Aurelia Escalante, who serves as a maid to Rosita, lady of the mansion and wife to the notorious prohibition gangster, Eddie McGee. In the freezing winter of 1932, the women anticipate the arrival of Eddie and his strange coterie: his right-hand man, a doctor, a cousin, a famous actor, and a rival gangster who Rosita believes murdered their only son. Aurelia wants nothing more than to escape Trouble Island, but she is hiding a secret of her own. She is in fact not a maid, but a gangster's wife in hiding, as she runs from the murder she committed five years ago. Her friend Rosita took her in under this guise, but it has become clear that Rosita wants to keep Aurelia right where she is. Shortly after the group of criminals, celebrities, and scoundrels arrive, Rosita suddenly disappears. Aurelia plans her getaway, going to the shore to retrieve her box of hidden treasures, but instead finds Rosita's body in the water. Someone has made sure Aurelia was the one to find her. An ice storm makes unexpected landfall, cutting Trouble Island off from both mainlands, and with more than one murderer among them."--
9781250292841 1250292840
2024028212
Islands--Fiction.
Gangsters--Fiction.
Gangsters' spouses--Fiction.
Organized crime--Fiction.
Women household employees--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Ice storms--Fiction.
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
Fiction--Mystery & Detective --Historical.
Fiction--Mystery & Detective--Women Sleuths
Fiction--Thrillers --Suspense
Women--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Erie, Lake--Fiction.
PS3569.H594 / T76 2024
Sho 30
Trouble island a novel Sharon Short - First edition. - New York Minotaur Books 2024 - 327 pages 25 cm
"Many miles from anywhere in the middle of Lake Erie, Trouble Island serves as a stop-off for gangsters as they run between America and Canada. The remote isle is also the permanent home to two women: Aurelia Escalante, who serves as a maid to Rosita, lady of the mansion and wife to the notorious prohibition gangster, Eddie McGee. In the freezing winter of 1932, the women anticipate the arrival of Eddie and his strange coterie: his right-hand man, a doctor, a cousin, a famous actor, and a rival gangster who Rosita believes murdered their only son. Aurelia wants nothing more than to escape Trouble Island, but she is hiding a secret of her own. She is in fact not a maid, but a gangster's wife in hiding, as she runs from the murder she committed five years ago. Her friend Rosita took her in under this guise, but it has become clear that Rosita wants to keep Aurelia right where she is. Shortly after the group of criminals, celebrities, and scoundrels arrive, Rosita suddenly disappears. Aurelia plans her getaway, going to the shore to retrieve her box of hidden treasures, but instead finds Rosita's body in the water. Someone has made sure Aurelia was the one to find her. An ice storm makes unexpected landfall, cutting Trouble Island off from both mainlands, and with more than one murderer among them."--
9781250292841 1250292840
2024028212
Islands--Fiction.
Gangsters--Fiction.
Gangsters' spouses--Fiction.
Organized crime--Fiction.
Women household employees--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Ice storms--Fiction.
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
Fiction--Mystery & Detective --Historical.
Fiction--Mystery & Detective--Women Sleuths
Fiction--Thrillers --Suspense
Women--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Erie, Lake--Fiction.
PS3569.H594 / T76 2024
Sho 30