The Wicked Widow: A Wicked City Novel

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Gin Kelly, the wicked redhead, is back! Readers willdelight in next installment of the Wicked City series by New York Timesbestselling author Beatriz Williams. June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva “Gin”Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to OliverAnson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one ofNew York’s most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, thehead of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket—and Anson’s mortalenemy—turns up murdered at a society funeral, and their short-lived honeymoonbliss goes up in a spectacular blaze that sends Anson back undercover...andinto the jaws of a trap from which not even Gin can rescue him. As violenceexplodes around her, Gin must summon all her considerable moxie to trace thetentacles of this sinister organization back to their shocking source, and facedown a legendary American family at a rigged game it has no intention oflosing. June 1998. When Ella Dommerich’s ninetysomethingsociety queen aunt Julie ropes her into digging up dirt on Senator (andPresidential candidate) Franklin Hardcastle in order to settle old family scores,she couldn’t be less enthusiastic. Pregnant Ella’s recently ditched herunfaithful husband and settled into cozy—if complicated—domesticity with her almost-too-good-to-be-truemusician boyfriend, Hector. But then the Hardcastle secrets lead to a web ofshady dealings Ella’s uncovered in her job as a financial analyst, and thebodies start to tumble out of the venerable woodwork. With the help of herex-husband and her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper, Elladigs up more than mere dirt…only to discover herself standing alone between alegendarily ruthless family and the prize it’s sought for generations. What ugly secrets lurk in the opulent enclaves—and bankaccounts--of America’s richest families? And can two determined women from twodifferent generations thwart the murderous legacy of the demon liquor?

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780063142442

Publisher

William Morrow & Company

Published

October 26, 2021

Pages

448

Weight

11.2 oz

Subject

Fiction