Imprint: Vintage
Published: 18/06/2015
ISBN: 9780099593232
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 277g
RRP: £8.99
On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room.
Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she has seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed ‘the Tie-Pin Killer’ she realises that unless she acts quickly, more women will die...
From the glittering murk of Soho’s underworld, to the grease paint and ghost-lights of theatreland, Curtain Call is a poignant and gripping story about love and death in a society dancing towards the abyss.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 18/06/2015
ISBN: 9780099593232
Length: 400 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 277g
RRP: £8.99
This is an utterly delightful read, made to appear easy, effortless and brilliantly suspenseful, while never becoming predictable or cosy…. I can’t recommend this book highly enough.
It had me on the edge of my seat. The only disappointment…is when the curtain finally has to come down
Night after night for a happy week, Quinn filled my dreams with glossy surfaces and hidden vices, silk stockings and champagne and intellectual snobberies and long walks home on hard London pavements. Anyone who paces the West End streets will find them more haunted after reading this book.
Curtain Call is a beautifully written, absorbing work of historical fiction.
Curtain Call goes from gripping you lightly to gripping you tightly. Both in its construction and its characters there is more going on beneath the surface than first appears.