Frog Music

**''A dazzling historical crime Drama.''*--San Francisco Chronicle*** **Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead.** The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice***...if he doesn't track her down first.*** 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. 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. In thrilling, cinematic style, ''FROG MUSIC'' digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, ***Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes, captures the pulse of a boom town like no other.***