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The Song Is You

by Megan Abbott · 2007

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From Edgar Award-nominated novelist Megan Abbott, who makes devotees of Cain and Chandler fall down and beg for mercy (The Hollywood Reporter), comes an imaginative new novel about the mysterious murder of an actress that remains unsolved today.

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisnoirnoirMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of this
Themes
womenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisLos AngelesLos AngelesMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 242 pages

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