One Night, New York : 'A page turner with style' (Erin Kelly)

'ONE NIGHT, NEW YORK transports the reader to the glitter and the danger of old New York.A page-turner with style.' ERIN KELLY'ENTHRALLING' THE TIMES, BEST NEW HISTORICAL FICTIONA THRILLING DEBUT NOVEL OF CORRUPTION AND MURDER, SET IN THE NIGHTCLUBS, TENEMENTS AND SKYSCRAPERS OF 1930s NEW YORK - FROM THE WINNER OF THE VIRAGO/THE POOL NEW CRIME WRITER AWARD. At the top of the Empire State Building on a freezing December night, two women hold their breath.Frances and Agnes are waiting for the man who has wronged them.They plan to seek the ultimate revenge. Set over the course of a single night, One Night, New York is a detective story, a romance and a coming-of-age tale.It is also a story of old New York, of bohemian Greenwich Village between the wars, of floozies and artists and addicts, of a city that sucked in creatives and immigrants alike, lighting up the world, while all around America burned amid the heat of the Great Depression. 'An atmospheric portrait of a city in the grip of the Great Depression as well as a compelling crime story' GUARDIAN'Thompson's impressive debut delivers a beautifully detailed and multifaceted account of Jazz Age New York' IRISH TIMES'An assured debut so evocative you can almost smell the bathtub gin wafting off the pages' RED MAGAZINE