The Girl from Greenwich Street - Lauren Willig

This is historical fiction at its best.--Book ReporterBased on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyoneand no oneseemed to know.At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows.Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousins boarding houseand doesnt come home.Has she eloped?Run away? No one knowsuntil her body appears in the Manhattan Well.Her family insists they know who killed her.Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma.But privately, quietly, Levis wealthy brother calls in a special favor.Aaron Burrs legal practice cant finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections.To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines.Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isnt going to let Burr monopolize the publics attention. If Burr is defending Levi Weeks, then Hamilton will too. As the trial and the election draw near, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a mans lifeand destroy each other.Part murder mystery, part thriller, part true crime, The Girl From Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of historywith a surprising twist ending that reveals the true st
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