The spectacular : a novel

Title The spectacular : a novel
Names Davis, Fiona.
Book Number DB115331
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Download Link Downloadable talking book.
Annotation "New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-the glamorous precision-dancing troupe-she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer. Meanwhile, the city is reeling from a string of bombings orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the "Big Apple Bomber," who has been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popular, crowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a yearslong manhunt, the police turn in desperation to Peter Griggs, a young doctor at a local mental hospital who espouses a radical new technique: psychological profiling. As both Marion and Peter find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the bomber, Marion realizes that as much as she's been training herself to blend in-performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes-if she hopes to catch the bomber, she'll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so, she may be forced to sacrifice everything she's worked for, as well as the people she loves the most." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Jacobs, Rachel L.
Farr, Kimberly.
Local Subject Historical Fiction - HIF
Historical Fiction - 20th Century - HIT
Historical Fiction-20th Cent-American - HITA
Mystery & Detective - MYS
Mystery-American - MAM
Mystery-Female Detective - MFE
Suspense - SUS
Female Narrator - FN
Exclusion - Long Book - LO
LC Subject Bombings - Fiction
Nineteen fifties - Fiction
Psychologists - Fiction
Terrorists - Fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Novels
Call Number 813.6 AFI
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2023 9780593742624 2023
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