Frog Music: A Novel

　　1876年夏天‧舊金山

　　一名年輕女孩金妮慘遭射殺，而她的脫衣舞孃摯友布蘭琪恰巧就在她身旁，目睹了整起命案經過。

　　當年的舊金山時值高溫熱浪和天花疫情的無情襲擊，宛如人間煉獄。中國城巷內住著三位舞者：布蘭琪、布蘭琪的男友亞瑟、以及亞瑟的男友埃內斯特，複雜的三角關係，在金妮介入後變得更加撲朔迷離。

　　目睹命案經過的布蘭琪發誓要在三天內找出殺害金妮的兇手，但卻不知危險已悄悄逼近自己，呼之欲出的真相，連帶著也要賠上三人極力隱藏的秘密‧‧‧（文／博客來編譯）

　　Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead.

　　The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.

　　In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.

作者簡介

　　Born in Dublin in 1969 and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue is a writer of fiction, history, and drama for radio, stage and screen. She is best known for her international bestseller Room, shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes and winner of the Commonwealth (Canada/Caribbean), Rogers Writers' Trust and Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Awards. Her fiction ranges from contemporary (Stir-fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects) to historical (Slammerkin, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Life Mask, The Sealed Letter, Astray) to fairy-tale (Kissing the Witch). For more information, go to www.emmadonoghue.com.

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