From
the back cover
“Welcome
to the Black Triangle, New York’s decadent district of opium dens, gambling
casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. The queen of
this unsavory neighborhood is Black Lena Shanks, whose family leads a ring of female
criminals─women skilled in the art of cruelty.
“Only
a few blocks away, amdist the elegant mansions and lily-white reputations of
Gramercy Park and Washington Square, lives Judge James Stallworth. On a crusade
to crush Lena’s evil empire, the judge has sentenced three of her family
members to death. And now she wants revenge.
“One
Sunday, all the Stallworths receive invitations─to their own funerals. Can even
the wealth and power of the Stallworth family protect them from Lena’s lust for
vengeance?”
Review
Gilded
is
one of the best books I’ve read this year. It is an intense, cinematic-vivid,
character-rich, slow burn of a period piece thriller, one that was
near-impossible to set down from its first page to its last. It is worth not
only worth reading and owning.
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