A Little Trouble with the Facts - Softcover

Siegal, Nina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006124290X ISBN 13: 9780061242908

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2008

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 02 Pages: 304 in Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Valerie Vane was an up-and-coming lifestyle reporter at a prominent New York City daily Then she stumbled. Rather publicly and lost it all-her column. her fianc. her access behind the city's velvet ropes. Now she's on the obituary desk writing death notices. and it feels like a dead end.However. when she writes about a recently deceased once-famous graffiti artist. the phone calls start. A mysterious voice on the other end of the line tells her the artist's death was a murder-and if she were a real reporter. she'd investigate.But can Valerie trade her stilettos for gumshoes

About this title

Review:

"Witty...Nina Siegal gets it right."--Page Six, New York Post

"Siegal has subtly rejuvinated the (noir) genre."--Brooklyn Rail Magazine

"WHAT YOU'LL LOVE: Siegal's talent for nailing the details that illuminate an era -- from the mid-'80s art boom to the late '90s social swirl -- makes for a transporting read."--Washington Post

"An absorbing tale. Siegal is a delightful writer."--Associated Press

"Valerie Vane is the best thing to hit the newspaper biz since Rosalind Russell cracked wise with Cary Grant. She's smart, she's funny, she's sexy."--James Hynes, author of THE LECTURER'S TALE, KINGS OF INFINITE SPACE, and PUBLISH AND PERISH: THREE TALES OF TENURE AND TERROR

"Siegal blends glamour and gutter into a delicious cocktail, equal parts behind-the-scenes dish and crime novel."--Publishers Weekly

"A novel as rich as it is eminently readable. Good luck putting A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THE FACTS down for the night."--Lucinda Rosenfeld, author of WHAT SHE SAW and WHY SHE WENT HOME

"More proof that the hardboiled novel is alive and kicking: a novel that is both thrilling to read and beautifully written. Smart, fast, funny!"--Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits and Daughter's Keeper

"I know I'm only the first of many readers who will fall in love with Valerie Vane, irresistible heroine of Nina Siegal's wonderfully witty novel. A compulsively readable debut."--Margot Livesey, author of BANISHING VERONA, EVA MOVES THE FURNITURE, and THE MISSING WORLD

"A great read."--Quick and Simple Magazine

About the Author:

Nina Siegal received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Fulbright Scholar. She has written for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in Amsterdam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 006124290X
• ISBN 13: 9780061242908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304