Woman of Ill Fame

Woman of Ill Fame

by Erika Mailman
Woman of Ill Fame

Woman of Ill Fame

by Erika Mailman

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Overview

Looking for a better life, prostitute Nora Simms arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with a plan for success: to strike it rich by trading on her good looks. But when a string of murders claims several of her fellow women of ill fame, Nora grows uneasy with how closely linked all of the victims are to her. She must distinguish friend from foe in a race to discover the identity of the killer.

"I LOVED Woman of Ill Fame! Nora Simms is hilarious, heartbreaking, tough, perceptive...and one of the most engaging characters I've ever met between the pages of a book. Wonderful story, great setting and really good writing made this one of the best books I've read in a long time!"
-Diana Gabaldon, internationally-bestselling author of the Outlander series

The whodunit aspect makes Woman of Ill Fame a page-turner, and Mailman manages to keep the reader guessing. Yet it's the depiction of early San Francisco that propels this thriller above its genre, in the manner of historical fiction such as Caleb Carr's The Alienist.
-Kemble Scott, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Mailman serves up vivid description, sparkling prose and a Gold Rush prostitute as scrappy as Scarlett O'Hara.
-Kathleen Grant Gelb, Oakland Tribune

Nora Simms isn't a whore with a heart of gold. She's a whore with a head for gold.... Mailman presents a sprawling, loud and muddy city that fairly pulsates with human energy.
- Edward Morris, ForeWord

Product Details

BN ID: 2940148963059
Publisher: Erika Mailman
Publication date: 11/11/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 257
Sales rank: 413,990
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Erika Mailman is the author of The Witch’s Trinity, a Bram Stoker finalist and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book, and Woman of Ill Fame, a Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award nominee. While writing The Witch’s Trinity, she learned she was the descendant of a woman accused twice of witchcraft in the decades predating Salem’s furor and, surprisingly, acquitted. Her first in a series of young adult novels tentatively titled The Arnaud Legacy will be forthcoming from Kensington in 2015. Erika has been a Yaddo fellow and a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards. She is a freelance writer and teaches novel writing through www.mediabistro.com.. www.erikamailman.com
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