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Key ideas from the book
- The novel centers on the aftermath of Jenny Bonnet’s murder in 1876 San Francisco.
- Blanche Beunon tries to uncover the truth while facing the possibility that the killer may come after her.
- The story is set against a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic.
- The investigation brings Blanche into contact with people from sharply different social worlds.
- The book draws on a long-forgotten, never-solved crime and includes songs described as having migrated across the world.
About Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Set in San Francisco in the summer of 1876, Frog Music places a murder mystery amid a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. When Jenny Bonnet is shot dead, her friend Blanche Beunon—a French burlesque dancer—is left to piece together what happened and pursue the truth.
Over the next three days, Blanche’s search brings her into a world of bohemians, paupers, and millionaires, while the story draws on a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Readers of historical fiction and crime mysteries may enjoy its portrait of San Francisco during a turbulent moment in the city’s history.
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