What Our Editors Are Reading This Week
Amy Ephron’s Interbellum Noir
Set in New York in the 1930s, Unseasonably Cold tells the story of a New York heiress who disappears most mysteriously.
Graydon Carter—Air Mail
The place is New York; the year is 1939. War is the backdrop of Amy Ephron’s latest novel, a suspenseful noir that travels between the bohemians of Greenwich Village and the aristocrats of uptown. But the society set is far more preoccupied with another matter: the mysterious disappearance of heiress Jane Abbott. None more so than her best friend, Liza, who is haunted by the foreboding last words Jane said to her. Unseasonably Cold’s atmosphere is Wharton and Towles; its page-turning plot is pure Christie.
—Paulina Prosnitz
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