Fiona Davis. Dutton, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-101-98499-4
Davis’s impeccably structured debut is equal parts mystery, tribute to midcentury New York City, and classic love story. It showcases the intersection of two women’s lives at the famed Barbizon Hotel, whose notable residents included Joan Didion,...
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Fiona Davis, read by Tavia Gilbert. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-5247-0314-1
Gilbert’s superb audio adaptation of Davis’s debut mystery, set in N.Y.C., at the renowned Barbizon Hotel, formerly a women-only residence to famous luminaries, is a highly skilled performance of this suspenseful love story, whose characters inhabit
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Fiona Davis. Dutton, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4199-0
Davis (The Dollhouse) has folded together two historical eras in this breezy historical novel that jumps between Gilded Age and Reagan-era New York City. In 1884, Sara Smythe sets off from London to New York, wooed there with the promise of a job at
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Fiona Davis. Dutton, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4295-9
Davis’s splendid third novel (following The Dollhouse and The Address) takes readers back in time to the New York of the 1970s and the late ’20s, centering on Grand Central Station. In 1928 New York City, illustrator and artist Clara Darden teaches...
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Fiona Davis. Dutton, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4458-8
The strong friendship between two women who meet performing in USO shows during WWII is tested as the country descends into McCarthy-era madness in the solid latest from Davis (The Masterpiece). Hazel Ripley is a perennial understudy, pushed into...
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Fiona Davis. Dutton, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4461-8
Davis (The Address) delves into the history of the New York Public Library in this delightful mystery. It’s 1913, and Jack and Laura Lyons have spent the past two years living in an apartment on a mezzanine tucked inside the library, since it opened.
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Fiona Davis. Dutton, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-18401-1
Davis (The Lions of Fifth Avenue) returns with the captivating story of a missing diamond and the history of New York’s Henry Clay Frick House, before and after it became a museum. Veronica Weber travels from London to New York in 1966, where she...
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Fiona Davis. Dutton, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-18404-2
A dancer joins forces with a psychiatrist to find a bomber targeting New York City in the kinetic latest from Davis (The Magnolia Palace). It’s 1956 and dancer Marion Brooks, 19, has just joined the Radio City Rockettes, having defied her father...
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Fiona Davis. Dutton, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-47427-3
In this alluring outing from Davis (The Spectacular), two women team up to find an artifact that’s gone missing from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s 1978 and curator Charlotte Cross, who specializes in Egyptian antiquities, has spent the past...
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