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Westside : a novel / W.M. Akers.

by Akers, W. M.

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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c2019.

Women private investigators -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Corruption -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Akers, W. M., Westside series ; 1.

9780062853998 (hc.)

Alternate title:

West-side : a novel.

291 p. : map ; 24 cm.

"It's 1921, and a thirteen-mile fence running the length of Broadway splits the island of Manhattan, separating the prosperous Eastside from the Westside--an overgrown wasteland whose hostility to modern technology gives it the flavor of old New York. Thousands have disappeared here, and the respectable have fled, leaving behind the killers, thieves, poets, painters, drunks, and those too poor or desperate to leave. It is a hellish landscape, and Gilda Carr proudly calls it home. Slightly built, but with a will of iron, Gilda follows in the footsteps of her late father, a police detective turned private eye. Unlike that larger-than-life man, Gilda solves tiny mysteries: the impossible puzzles that keep us awake at night; the small riddles that destroy us; the questions that spoil marriages, ruin friendships, and curdle joy. Those tiny cases distract her from her grief, and the one impossible question she knows she can't answer: 'How did my father die?'"--Publisher.

Fantasy fiction.

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Mystery fiction.

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