City of Liars and Thieves

✍ Scribed by Karlin, Eve

• Book ID: 108129192
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101883051

✦ Synopsis

A crime that rocked a city. A case that stunned a nation. Based on the United States's first recorded murder trial, Eve Karlin's spellbinding debut novel re-creates early nineteenth-century New York City, where a love affair ends in a brutal murder and a conspiracy involving Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr erupts in shattering violence.

It is high time to tell the truth. Time for justice. . . . How she was murdered and why she haunts me. It is not only Elma's story, it's mine.

On the bustling docks of the Hudson River, Catherine Ring waits with her husband and children for the ship carrying her cousin, Elma Sands. Their Greenwich Street boardinghouse becomes a haven for Elma, who has at last escaped the stifling confines of her small hometown and the shameful circumstances of her birth. But in the summer of 1799, Manhattan remains a teeming cesspool of stagnant swamps and polluted rivers. The city is desperate for clean water as fires...