The discovery of a set of black-and-white photograph negatives has sent Annie Dawson searching for answers to why they were secreted away behind the portrait of her grandparents. The portrait has hung for generations now on a wall in Grey Gables, the home in Stony Point, Maine, that was bequeathed t
Jazzed
โ Scribed by Jill Dearman
- Book ID
- 112178902
- Publisher
- Vine Leaves Press
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 447 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781925965971
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โฆ Synopsis
Academic geniuses, Wilhelmina "Will" Reinhardt and Dorothy "Dolly" Raab, become roommates at Barnard in the early 1920s, a time when college for women was a rarity.
Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother's death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies.
Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their romance ignites. But while Will is obsessed with Dolly, Dolly is obsessed with crime. The power dynamics keep shifting as Will agrees to commit petty crimes with Dolly in exchange for sexual favors.
When the University and their rich families unite to split them up, passions escalate. To strike back at those who deny them the right to be together, they plot another crime: murder.
A gender-swapped take on the infamous "Leopold and Loeb" case, Jazzed is part historical fiction, part true crime. Juxtaposing the...
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