In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. 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. 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.
Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco.
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