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Ebook Details
  • 04/2016
  • ‎ B01C8EHNGO
  • 320 pages
  • $7.99
Paperback Details
  • 04/2016
  • 978-1631520167 ‎ B01C8EHNGO
  • 318 pages
  • $16.95
Audio Details
  • 11/2017
  • 9781094237152
  • 318 pages
  • $12.99
Michelle Cox
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A Girl Like You
Michelle Cox, Author
Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner bar, Poor Pete’s, on Chicago’s northwest side. It’s 1935, but things still aren’t looking up since the big crash and her father’s subsequent suicide. Left to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings, Henrietta is persuaded to take a job as a taxi dancer at a local dance hall. Henrietta is just beginning to enjoy herself, dancing with men for ten cents a dance, when the floor matron suddenly turns up murdered. The aloof Inspector Clive Howard then appears on the scene, and Henrietta unwittingly finds herself involved in unraveling the mystery when she agrees to go undercover for him. Even as Henrietta is plunged into Chicago’s grittier underworld, she struggles to still play mother “hen” to her younger siblings and even to the pesky neighborhood boy, Stanley, who believes himself in love with her and continues to pop up in the most unlikely places, determined, ironically, to keep Henrietta safe, even from the Inspector if needs be. Despite his efforts, however, and his penchant for messing up the Inspector’s investigation, the lovely Henrietta and the impenetrable Inspector find themselves drawn to each other in most unsuitable ways.
Plot/Idea: 8 out of 10
Originality: 8 out of 10
Prose: 7 out of 10
Character/Execution: 7 out of 10
Overall: 7.50 out of 10

Assessment:

This pleasure-filled book, set in 1930s Chicago, convincingly transports the reader into its vision of the past. The author has created a cast of believable, idiosyncratic characters, a compelling love interest that doesn'st overrun the novel's action, and a who-dun-it that is satisfyingly clever, but not impossible to figure out before the conclusion. The prose is not flashy, but is fairly well-wrought throughout.

Date Submitted: June 24, 2016

Formats
Ebook Details
  • 04/2016
  • ‎ B01C8EHNGO
  • 320 pages
  • $7.99
Paperback Details
  • 04/2016
  • 978-1631520167 ‎ B01C8EHNGO
  • 318 pages
  • $16.95
Audio Details
  • 11/2017
  • 9781094237152
  • 318 pages
  • $12.99
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