The Jazz Bird - Hardcover

Holden, Craig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743212967 ISBN 13: 9780743212960

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2001

Synopsis

Based on a true story, The Jazz Bird is at once a love story, a crime novel, and the tale of the courtroom battle between two powerful men whose respective futures hang in the balance, set at the apex of that time of glitz and innocence known as the Jazz Age.

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Review:

After three taut, well-crafted contemporary mysteries, Craig Holden turns in The Jazz Bird to the 1920s, evoking a period rich in glamour and drama in a powerful and elegiac story told with consummate skill.

Young Charlie Taft, a prosecutor who's the son of a former president and chief justice, doesn't need to solve the murder of Imogene Remus, the quixotic and exotic wife of Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus; George has already confessed to the crime, and his conviction is all but assured. But as Charlie delves deeper into the tangled history of the stunning socialite who defied her wealthy family to marry Remus and went to extraordinary lengths to free him from prison, he begins to doubt whether the bootlegger is insane, as he claims, or the real victim of his wife's betrayal.

Holden brings a fascinating era in American history to life through the creation of complex, multidimensional characters who haunt the reader long after the last page is turned. This is a tour de force from a writer who gets better with every novel. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com

Review:

"The Washington Post" Craig Holden writes like a dream.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0743212967
• ISBN 13: 9780743212960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314