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Simon & Schuster, July 2009
Trade Paperback, 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1416599096
ISBN-13: 9781416599098
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In Bury Me Deep, “Megan Abbott delivers. She is simply one of the most exciting and original voices of her generation” (Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dead Know).
• Edgar® Award winner: With her first three novels, megan Abbott has been a two-time nominee for crime writing’s top honor, the edgar® Award, and now a winner for her third novel, Queenpin. The prize has cemented Abbott’s place as “the reigning crown princess of noir” (Booklist).
• Jazz age caper: Synonymous with the rise of modern-style corruption and louche social mores, the Jazz Age is one of the most colorful periods in American history, times notorious for inciting scandalous crimes. Steeped in authentic period detail, Bury Me Deep resounds to the present day with echoes of doomed love and the tragedy it wrought.
• “The trunk murderess”: Bury Me Deep turns on the indelible details of a double murder whose victims are dismembered and concealed in trunks bound by train for Los Angeles. As a portrayal of an accused murderess (dubbed “Tiger Woman,” “The Blonde Butcher” and “The Velvet Tigress”) trapped by circumstance of gender, class, and, most of all, the blindness of passion, the novel is an astounding feat of suspense and intrigue.
• Edgar® Award winner: With her first three novels, megan Abbott has been a two-time nominee for crime writing’s top honor, the edgar® Award, and now a winner for her third novel, Queenpin. The prize has cemented Abbott’s place as “the reigning crown princess of noir” (Booklist).
• Jazz age caper: Synonymous with the rise of modern-style corruption and louche social mores, the Jazz Age is one of the most colorful periods in American history, times notorious for inciting scandalous crimes. Steeped in authentic period detail, Bury Me Deep resounds to the present day with echoes of doomed love and the tragedy it wrought.
• “The trunk murderess”: Bury Me Deep turns on the indelible details of a double murder whose victims are dismembered and concealed in trunks bound by train for Los Angeles. As a portrayal of an accused murderess (dubbed “Tiger Woman,” “The Blonde Butcher” and “The Velvet Tigress”) trapped by circumstance of gender, class, and, most of all, the blindness of passion, the novel is an astounding feat of suspense and intrigue.
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"Word for word, pound for pound, Megan Abbott delivers more than any writer I know. Her influences appear to range from Hollywood Babylon to Theodore Dreiser, but her work transcends pastiche and homage. Bury Me Deep extends an already jaw-dropping winning streak, showcasing Abbott's gorgeous prose and clear-eyed empathy. She is simply one of the most exciting and original voices of her generation."
-- Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dead Know
"Working once more...from a true crime... Edgar-winner Abbott brings the era to life...Her nearly stream-of-consciousness narration is direct and powerful...her prose carries an urgency that brings hard-boiled crime fiction kicking and screaming into the modern age. Abbott takes readers on a wild thrill ride with an utterly believable and strangely sympathetic heroine."
-- Kirkus, Starred Review
"In [Bury Me Deep] Abbott turns the stuff of sensational confession magazines into a rich meditation on the unclouded depths of the soul."
-- Carl Rosen, New York magazine
"[F]abulous characters, delectable plotting, a unique story and a steamy yet gossamer setting....A stunning work of fiction, it is Abbott's love for her central character that makes Bury Me Deep so accessible and so far away at the same time. Imagine Hammett wrote Daisy Buchanan and not Fitzgerald. And you are Gatsby... so close and yet so far away. This is Bury Me Deep."
-- Ruth Jordan, Crimespree
"Edgar-winner Abbott...explores gender inequality and its sometimes tragic results in her well-crafted fourth crime novel...that leads to murder and a startling predicament...Readers should be prepared for...a shocking ending."
-- Publishers Weekly
"[S]omething for everyone: true crime (it's based on a notorious 1930s trunk murderess' case), plus it's a women's story with noir embellishments. It has tough times, drugs, and pandemics. It screams 'today!' -- only retro. Done in that rat-a-tat delivery that...can't miss. Recommended heartily for fans of Edgar Award-winning Abbott's retro-noir crime fiction."
-- Library Journal
"In a word: amazing. In more words: Megan Abbott, who has never delivered anything less than an excellent novel, exceeds expectations and takes a very bold and very necessary step forward both in the quality of the prose, the development of her characters and especially in portraying how obsession seeps into the very soul of people, transforming them into their worst nightmares all too easily. Just read this book. And then tell many others to do so as well."
-- Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
"Megan Abbott's virtuoso fiction [is comparable] to the great James M. Cain....Bury Me Deep is literary fiction that happens to include a crime...beautifully wrought...[Abbott is] an author destined to be a leading writer of her generation."
-- W.E. Reinka, Mystery News, FIVE STARS
"[A] cunningly fictionalized...exquisite book, told in delicate, shimmering prose that heightens the nightmarish quality of the story. Megan Abbott is often compared with James Ellroy...but her writing is far more economical and focused, and her sensibilities are feminine to the core. This is noir mystery writing at its very best."
-- Tom and Enid Schantz, The Denver Post
MetroTimes.com, September 28, 2011
...pp. It's summer. 1980s. It's a middle-class Detroit suburb, perhaps the very same neighborhood where author Megan Abbott grew up. Evie and Lizzie are inseparable, soul twins, the best of friends. They share knowing looks and strawberry lip ...
MetroTimes.com, September 28, 2011
...pp. It's summer. 1980s. It's a middle-class Detroit suburb, perhaps the very same neighborhood where author Megan Abbott grew up. Evie and Lizzie are inseparable, soul twins, the best of friends. They share knowing looks and strawberry lip ...
Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2011
...bore, both inside and outside the room where they were held captive. Now comes "The End of Everything," Megan Abbott's fifth novel, set in an upper Midwest suburb in the mid-1980s. Lizzie is a 13-year-old living with her brother and recently ...
Miami Herald, December 29, 2009
...in an atmosphere that makes the setting feel as if it is New York in the 1940s. 16. Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott. Simon & Schuster. In a fictional account of a real crime in 1931, Abbott delivers a dark story about a young woman's chilling ...
Detroit News, December 16, 2009
...and relationships. This book is a real treat for jazz lovers and biography junkies alike. M.M.T. "Bury Me Deep" by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster, $13): Detroit native Abbott is one of the best neo-noir stylists operating today. The book is ...
Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2009
...Argentina, when Eva Per�n glittered brightly and Nazis hid in plain sight. That decade has also long been Megan Abbott's bailiwick, but for "Bury Me Deep" (Simon & Schuster: 240 pp., $15 paper) she travels back to 1931 Phoenix for a ...
WDET 101.9FM, September 19, 2009
...Board of Commissioners. He’ll let us know what’s been achieved so far. Grosse Point-native mystery writer Megan Abbott will join us to talk about her new novel Bury Me Deep, a jazz-age tale of murder and mayhem. Turin, Italy 15-20 years ...
Detroit News, September 17, 2009
...Acclaimed noir author and Detroit native Megan Abbott will take part in a reading and discussion of her work at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Bernath Auditorium of the Wayne State University Undergraduate Library, with a ...
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