Unseasonably Cold
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Unseasonably Cold
A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions.
"A spare historical thriller about trusting the wrong people. Our verdict: Get it!" -Kirkus Reviews
"Unseasonably Cold's atmosphere is Wharton and Towles; its page-turning plot is pure Christie." - Airmail Weekly
A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions.
Replete with beautifully observed period detail and sharply drawn characters, Unseasonably Cold is classic storytelling, a mystery crafted with an artist's eye.
Rendered in Ephron's lovely, austere literary prose, it is utterly worthy of the era it depicts, when the polite mask of high society's mannered calm disguised the turbulence just beneath; a mirror for the terrible events swirling in Europe at the lead-up to the Second World War.
* The Historical Novel Society calls Unseasonably Cold Amy Ephron's "noir-ish 1939 mystery . . . The plot hinges on a police investigation, the multiple family ties, romantic entanglements, hidden and not so hidden relationships.""Altogether intriguing-haunting, even-and I couldn't have enjoyed myself more."
-Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer's English
"Atmospheric. Propulsive. Captivating. Pure Amy."
-Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The View from Lake Como
"I was enthralled from the first page to the very last. A fascinating, compelling read that I thought about for a long time after. It's not a book to be missed."
-Jill Santopolo, New York Times best-selling author of The Light We Lost
"It's a Faberge egg of a novel. Perfect in detail and execution. Ephron's prose is so incredibly sparse and compelling. I was very taken with it."
- Holly Goldberg Sloan, best-selling author.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781958861936
Publisher: Sager Group LLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 April 2026
Imprint: Sager Group LLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 417g
Pages: 230
About the Author
Amy Ephron is a best-selling, award-winning novelist and children's book author, a journalist, screenwriter and producer. She was a contributing editor to Vogue, and to The New York Times' T magazine. She has published in print and online at Airmail Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Harper's Bazaar and more. Unseasonably Cold is her 10th novel.
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