Bury Me Deep

Bury Me Deep

'Megan Abbott is a superb storyteller... poised to ascend to the top rung of crime writing and quite possibly something beyond.' - James Ellroy

'Bury Me Deep extends an already jaw-dropping winning streak, showcasing Abbott's gorgeous prose and clear-eyed empathy. She is simply one of the most exciting and original voices of her generation' - Laura Lipman, author of What the Dead Know.

October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in L.A.'s Union Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade.

Inspired by this notorious true crime, Edgar- winning author Megan Abbott's novel Bury Me Deep is the story of Marion Seely, a young women abandoned in Phoenix by her doctor husband. At the medical clinic where she finds a job, Marion becomes fast friends with Louise, a vivacious nurse, and her roommate, Ginny, a tubercular blonde. Before long, the demure Marion is swept up in the exuberant life of the girls, who supplement their scant income by entertaining the town's most powerful men with wild parties. At one of these events, Marion meets - and falls hard for- the charming Joe Langian, a local rogue and politician on the rise, whose ties to all three women bring events to a dangerous collision.

A story born of Jazz Age decadence and Depression-era desperation, Bury Me Deep- with its hothouse of jealousy, illicit sex and shifting loyalties- is a timeless portrait of the dark side of desire and the glimmer of redemption.

Megan Abbott has taught literature, writing and film at New York University and the State University of New York at Oswego. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University in 2000, and in 2002 Palgrave Macmillian published her nonfiction study, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. She lives in New York City.

Bury Me Deep
Simon and Schuster
Author: Megan Abbott
ISBN: 978184796334
Price: $22.99