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Longlisted for The John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017

Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte''s life unravels and she descends into the city''s underbelly, where she meets the strippers, pornographers and drug dealers who surrounded Danielle in the years they were estranged.

Ginsburg''s Houston is part of a lesser known south, where the urban and rural collide gracelessly. In this shadowy world, culpability and sympathy blur in a debut novel which thrillingly brings its three female protagonists to the fore. Scary, funny and almost unbearably sad, Sunset City is written with rare grace and empathy holding you transfixed, praying for some kind of escape for Charlotte.

Sunset City

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    A Paperback by Melissa Ginsburg

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 4 June 2017
      ISBN-13 9780571326723
      978-0571326723
      ISBN-10 0571326722

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Longlisted for The John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017

      Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte''s life unravels and she descends into the city''s underbelly, where she meets the strippers, pornographers and drug dealers who surrounded Danielle in the years they were estranged.

      Ginsburg''s Houston is part of a lesser known south, where the urban and rural collide gracelessly. In this shadowy world, culpability and sympathy blur in a debut novel which thrillingly brings its three female protagonists to the fore. Scary, funny and almost unbearably sad, Sunset City is written with rare grace and empathy holding you transfixed, praying for some kind of escape for Charlotte.

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