Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other. In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice - if he doesn't track her down first. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic.
From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: "Her greatest achievement yet.Emma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music - she shows genius."- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life.
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