Présentation de l'éditeur
A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-heel nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. The moll to end all molls, Gloria is notoriously cunning and ruthless. She shows her eager young protégée the ropes, ushering her into a glittering whirl of late-night casinos, racetracks, betting parlours, inside heists and big, big money. Suddenly, the world is at her feet -- as long as she doesn't take any chances, like falling for the wrong guy.
It all falls to pieces with a few turns of the roulette wheel, as both mentor and protégée scramble to stay one step ahead of their bosses and each other.
In the tradition of hardboiled potboilers such as Double Indemnity and The Grifters and mob tales such as Goodfellas, Queenpin offers a feminine twist on a classic story of underworld seduction and greed, or tortured loyalty and inevitable betrayal.
Revue de presse
'If Abbott writes half a dozen more books as good as her first three (Die a Little and The Song is You are period-piece perfection), she will claim the throne as the finest prose stylist in crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' San Francisco Chronicle
Quatrième de couverture
Her legs were the legs of a 20-year-old Vegas showgirl, a hundred feet long and with just enough curve and give and promise …Two decades her junior, my skinny matchsticks were no competition. She was legend.
A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-heel nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. The moll to end all molls, Gloria is notoriously cunning and ruthless. She shows her eager young protégée the ropes, ushering her into a glittering whirl of late-night casinos, racetracks, betting parlours, inside heists and big, big money. Suddenly, the world is at her feet - as long as she doesn't take any chances, like falling for the wrong guy.
It all falls to pieces with a few turns of the roulette wheel, as both mentor and protégée scramble to stay one step ahead of their bosses and each other.
'Megan Abbott continues to be my absolute favourite new author' Lisa Scottoline
'If Megan Abbott writes half a dozen more books as good as her first three, she will claim the throne as the finest prose stylist in crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' San Francisco Chronicle
Tumbnails of Die A Little and The Song is You with the line Also available by Megan Abbott
Biographie de l'auteur
Megan Abbott was born in the Detroit area, and has taught literature, writing and film at universities in New York. She lives in New York City. Visit her website at www.meganabbott.com
