Sunset City - Tapa blanda

Queasily addictive. (Metro)

'A tour de force in noir fiction ... a superb debut.' (Bibliophile Book Club)

'This is crime noir at its best. It is gritty, and grubby. It is dirty, erotic, funny and really very good.' (Random Things Through My Letterbox)

Like nothing I have read before ... a high octane thriller. (Reflections of a Reader)

'Ginsberg has penned a contemplation to loss, bereavement, regret.' (Crime Novel Reader)

'I was gripped utterly by the events and the people, descriptively speaking this is pure magic, intense and evocative with a modern twist - often very sad and always edgy and involving.' (Liz Loves Books)

'[T]he evocation of a steamy Texas summer, full of the dangerous passions of youth, is memorable. A very promising slice of contemporary female noir.' (Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week)

'Fans of edgy, slight and sexy crime fiction in the style of Megan Abbott will love this.' (Raven Crime Reads)

'In poet Melissa Ginsburg's debut crime novel, her home town of Houston becomes as much a character as the protagonist ... Houston's suffocating heat and dark corners, its breakneck freeways, its seedy bars and lush suburbs - a living paradigm of the income gap - are the kind of noir backdrop against which a multilayered story can play.' (Crime Fiction Lover)

'Sunset City is sexy, boozy, poignant and funny ... the excellence of Ginsburg's writing ... will keep you glued to the pages.' (Laura Wilson Guardian)

Twenty-two-year-old Charlotte Ford reconnects with Danielle, her best friend from high school, a few days before Danielle is found bludgeoned to death in a motel room. In the wake of the murder, Charlotte's life unravels and she descends into the city's underbelly, where she meets the strippers, pornographers and drug dealers who surrounded Danielle in the years they were estranged. Ginsburg's Houston is part of a lesser known south, where the urban and rural collide gracelessly. In this shadowy world, culpability and sympathy blur in a debut novel which thrillingly brings its three female protagonists to the fore. Scary, funny and almost unbearably sad, Sunset City is written with rare grace and empathy holding you transfixed, praying for some kind of escape for Charlotte.