Publishers Weekly
08/30/2021
Williams continues her Wicked City series (after the Wicked Redhead) with an engrossing New York City mystery spanning several decades. In 1998, Ella Dommerich moves into her boyfriend Hector’s Greenwich Village walk-up, following her separation from Patrick, the father of her unborn child. Ella’s aunt Julie asks her to use her investigative skills as a financial analyst to dig up dirt on Senator Frank Hardcastle, a presidential candidate who was once married to another relative of Ella and Julie’s, and to whom Julie bears a grudge. In a parallel narrative set in 1924, Geneva Kelley marries Oliver Anson Marshall and they move into the townhouse later occupied by Hector and Ella. After Louis Hardcastle, the head of an East Coast bootlegging organization, is murdered, Louis’s son blames Anson, a former Prohibition enforcement special agent, and Anson decides to fake his death and go into hiding to protect Geneva. As Ella continues to delve into the background of the Hardcastle family while enduring prenatal nausea, she discovers connections to Patrick’s employer and some financial anomalies, and ropes Patrick in to an increasingly dangerous situation. Williams’s fast-paced story line features engaging dialogue and thematic connections between Ella and Geneva. Series fans will eat this up. Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM Partners. (Oct.)
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Williams continues her Wicked City series (after The Wicked Redhead) with an engrossing New York City mystery spanning several decades…Williams’s fast-paced story line features engaging dialogue and thematic connections between Ella and Geneva. Series fans will eat this up.” — Publishers Weekly
“The Golden Houris pure golden delight Beatriz Williams is at the top of her game.” — Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network
“I think Beatriz Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. It’s lush with period detail but feels immediate.” — Elin Hilderbrand
“Williams imagines the adventures of a world-famous aviator, who disappears in 1937 during a solo, around-the-world flight, in this engaging tale of courage, intrigue, and adventure…Williams builds irresistible tension with the alternating timelines as the fate of Irene and Sam unfolds with shrewd twists and turns that build to an unexpected jolt. Williams’s fans will devour this meaty tale." — Publishers Weekly(starred review) on Her Last Flight
“Beatriz Williams deftly fits together the characters, stories, and themes that the narrative services into a cohesive whole. The pieces all align perfectly, and she has shaped them together brilliantly. Her Last Flight is a gem of a book.” — New York Journal of Books on Her Last Flight
“Inventive...What if Amelia Earhart had not only survived her last flight, but found true romance.” — Kirkus Reviews on Her Last Flight
New York Journal of Books on Her Last Flight
Beatriz Williams deftly fits together the characters, stories, and themes that the narrative services into a cohesive whole. The pieces all align perfectly, and she has shaped them together brilliantly. Her Last Flight is a gem of a book.
Kate Quinn
The Golden Houris pure golden delight Beatriz Williams is at the top of her game.
Elin Hilderbrand
I think Beatriz Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. It’s lush with period detail but feels immediate.”