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A dangerous engagement / Ashley Weaver.
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- ISBN: 9781250159779 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 307 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2019.
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Weave | 31681010167153 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Traveling by ship to Prohibition-era New York to attend a friendâs wedding, Amory Ames investigates the murder of a wedding-party member who is found to have connections to a notorious gangster. By the author of Murder at the Brightwell. - Baker & Taylor
"A Dangerous Engagement is the stylish, charming sixth novel in the Edgar-nominated Amory Ames mystery series by Ashley Weaver, set in 1930s New York. As they travel by ship to New York for her childhood friend Tabitha's wedding, Amory Ames gazes out at the city's iconic skyline, excited by the prospect of being a bridesmaid. Her husband Milo, however, is convinced their trip will be deadly dull, since Prohibition is in full swing. But when a member of the wedding party is found murdered on the front steps of the bride's home, the happy plans take a darker twist. Amory discovers that the dead groomsman has links to the notorious-and notoriously handsome-gangster Leon De Lora, and soon she and Milo find themselves drawn into another mystery. While the police seem to think that New York's criminal underworld is at play, Amory feels they can't ignore the wedding party either. Tabitha's fiance Tom Smith appears to be a good man, but he has secrets of his own, and the others in the group seem strangely unaffected by the death of their friend . . . In an unfamiliar city, not knowing who they can trust, Milo and Amory are drawn into the glamorous, dangerous world of nightclubs and bootleggers. But as they draw closer to unraveling the web of lies and half-truths the murdered man has left in his wake, the killer is weaving a web of his own"-- - McMillan Palgrave
A Dangerous Engagement is the stylish, charming sixth novel in the Edgar-nominated Amory Ames mystery series by Ashley Weaver, set in 1930s New York.
As they travel by ship to New York for her childhood friend Tabithaâs wedding, Amory Ames gazes out at the cityâs iconic skyline, excited by the prospect of being a bridesmaid. Her husband Milo, however, is convinced their trip will be deadly dull, since Prohibition is in full swing. But when a member of the wedding party is found murdered on the front steps of the brideâs home, the happy plans take a darker twist.
Amory discovers that the dead groomsman has links to the notoriousâand notoriously handsomeâgangster Leon De Lora, and soon she and Milo find themselves drawn into another mystery. While the police seem to think that New Yorkâs criminal underworld is at play, Amory feels they canât ignore the wedding party either. Tabithaâs fiancé Tom Smith appears to be a good man, but he has secrets of his own, and the others in the group seem strangely unaffected by the death of their friend . . .
In an unfamiliar city, not knowing who they can trust, Milo and Amory are drawn into the glamorous, dangerous world of nightclubs and bootleggers. But as they draw closer to unraveling the web of lies and half-truths the murdered man has left in his wake, the killer is weaving a web of his own.
