{"title":"Katharine Schellman","description":"KATHARINE SCHELLMAN (she\/her) is a former actor, one-time political consultant, and current writer. Her debut novel, The Body in the Garden, was a Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2020 and led to her being named one of BookPage's 16 Women to Watch. A graduate of the College of William \u0026amp; Mary, Katharine currently lives and writes in the mountains of Virginia in the company of her husband, children, and the many houseplants she keeps accidentally murdering.","products":[{"product_id":"the-last-note-of-warning-a-mystery-paperback","title":"The Last Note of Warning: A Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Note of Warning \u003c\/i\u003eis the third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eProhibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy day, Vivian Kelly is a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found, if not love, then something like it with her bootlegger sweetheart, Leo, even if she can't quite forget the allure of the Nightingale's sultry owner, Honor Huxley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Then the husband of a wealthy client is discovered dead in his study, and Vivian was the last known person to see him alive. The police and the press are both eager to name a culprit, and Vivian finds herself the primary suspect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She can't flee town without endangering the people she loves, but Vivian isn't the sort of girl to go down without a fight. She'll cash in every favor she has from her motley crew of friends to prove she had no connection to the dead man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The police are closing in on Vivian, and the more she digs into the victim's life, the harder it is to avoid the truth: someone she knows wanted him dead. And the best way to get away with murder is to set up a girl like Vivian to take the fall.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103147167967,"sku":"9781250325815","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vc3KNibuaM9781250325815.webp?v=1781090377"},{"product_id":"last-dance-before-dawn-a-mystery-hardcover","title":"Last Dance Before Dawn: A Mystery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Dance before Dawn \u003c\/i\u003eis the final book in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivian Kelly has finally created a home and a family at the glamorous speakeasy known as The Nightingale, where no one cares who you are in the daytime. After all, in the underground world of 1920s New York City, everyone has a secret to keep, and they're on the Nightingale's dance floor to leave those secrets behind. But sometimes it takes more than a dance to escape your past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a stranger from Chicago shows up at The Nightingale looking to settle old scores, Vivian and the Nightingale's owner, the mysterious and alluring Honor Huxley, send him packing. They soon discover, though, that the stranger was just a warning. Slowly, the people who have made The Nightingale their home realize that someone is following them. Hunting them. And that someone won't stop until they unravel a mystery that's been cold for years: a missing girl, a boy out for revenge, and a truck full of cash that disappeared in a job gone horribly wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivian just wants to protect the people she loves, and she's willing to dig into the dirt of the past to make it happen. But some questions are safer left unanswered, and now that Vivian has built a family for herself, she has more to lose than ever before.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103236002015,"sku":"9781250325822","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/raFekyXGYf9781250325822.webp?v=1781090544"},{"product_id":"the-last-drop-of-hemlock-a-mystery-paperback","title":"The Last Drop of Hemlock: A Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Last Drop of Hemlock\u003c\/i\u003e, the dazzling follow up to\u003ci\u003e Last Call at the Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e, even a dance can come with a price...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLife as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally looking up for her and her sister Florence... until the night Vivian learns that her friend Bea's uncle, a bouncer at the Nightingale, has died. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis death is ruled a suicide, but Bea isn't so convinced. She knew her uncle was keeping a secret: a payoff from a mob boss that was going to take him out of the tenements and into a better life. Now, the money is missing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough her better judgment tells her to stay out of it, Vivian agrees to help Bea find the truth about her uncle's death. But they uncover more than they expected when rumors surface of a mysterious letter writer, blackmailing Vivian's poorest neighbors for their most valuable possessions, threatening poison if they don't comply. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeath is always a heartbeat away in Jazz Age New York, where mob bosses rule the back alleys and cops take bootleggers' hush money. But whoever is targeting Vivian's poor and unprotected neighbors is playing a different game. With the Nightingale's dangerously lovely owner, Honor, worried for her employees' safety and Bea determined to discover who is responsible for her uncle's death, Vivian once again finds herself digging through a dead man's past in hopes of stopping a killer.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104410767583,"sku":"9781250340030","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0B2LQ4TXSr9781250340030.webp?v=1781108249"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/katharine-schellman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}