World Enough
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Publisher Description
A Boston music journalist-turned-corporate writer investigates the suspicious death of a friend from her punk past in this noir mystery.
The Boston club scene may be home to a cast of outsiders and misfits, but it's where Tara Winton belongs—the world she's been part of for the past twenty years. Now, one of the old gang is dead, having fallen down the basement stairs at his home.
With her journalist's instincts, Tara senses there's something not quite right about Frank's supposedly accidental death. When she asks questions, she begins to uncover some disturbing truths about the club scene in its heyday. Beneath the heady, sexually charged atmosphere lurked something darker. Twenty years ago, there was another death. Could there be a connection? Is there a killer still at large…and could Tara herself be at risk?
"[A] a fascinating reminiscence of sex, drugs, and rock and roll."—Kirkus Reviews
"Simon writes with authority and affection about a lost world. Highly recommended"—Catriona McPherson, award-winning author of Strangers at the Gate
"World Enough, is steeped in the 1980s Boston rock scene, with its sticky-floored clubs, radio stations dusted in coke, stars and hangers-on, seedy barbacks, and all the attendant sin and debauch that emerges after midnight when you can still hear the show ringing in your ears."—Boston Globe
"Simon's dark story shimmers with brilliance—and stands as her finest."—Richmond Times-Dispatch
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This intriguing series launch from Simon, best known for her cozy Dulcie Schwartz mysteries (Into the Grey, etc.), introduces Boston journalist Tara Winton, who back in the 1980s covered local punk rock bands for fanzines that paid little but gave her access to the musicians and the music that remain central to her life. Now divorced and employed writing banal corporate reports, Tara is still holding on to what is left of the live music scene in Boston. After friend and former musician Frank Turcotte dies, Tara's ex-boss offers her a chance to write a story about Boston-based bands for a glossy magazine. Soon Tara's stable life begins to unravel as she revisits the past. Was Frank's death accidental or was it murder? Is it tied to the long-ago death of singer Chris Crack, who blazed onto the stage eclipsing another band and destroying their shot at a record deal? Vibrant descriptions of Boston's former music scene overshadow the plot, but readers with a taste for noir are sure to want to see more of the edgy Tara.)