31 Bond Street

<p><strong>The skill with which Ellen Horan has braided true crime with thoughtful novelizing is pure pleasure. . . . Caleb Carr meets Scott Turow. What could possibly be better? -- Beverly Swerling author of <em>City of God </em></strong></p><p><strong>An impressive blend of imagination and history as it vividly brings to life one of New York's City's most notorious crimes. -- Ron Rash <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Serena </em></strong></p><p>At once a gripping mystery and a richly detailed excavation of a lost age <em>31 Bond Street</em> 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 brutal murder 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.</p><p>Though there are no clues to the slaying of wealthy Dr. Harvey 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.</p><p>Fans of Caleb Carr's <em>The Alienist</em> Edith Wharton's <em>The House of Myrth</em> and John Berendt's <em>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil</em> will love the stunning prose and beautiful imagery of this riveting novel.</p>