Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.

暢銷小說《房間》作者愛瑪.唐納修最新小說，
結合歷史謀殺懸案，又一直搗人心力作！


《Frog Music》的創作靈感來自一宗被世人遺忘已久的歷史懸案──1876年夏天‧舊金山──一名年輕女孩金妮慘遭射殺，至今尚未結案。而她的脫衣舞孃摯友布蘭琪恰巧就在她身旁，目睹了整起命案經過。

小說情節藉由脫衣舞孃布蘭琪娓娓道來展開，延伸出美國新移民、流浪漢、破碎家庭、和受虐兒種種引人省思的複雜議題。

當年的舊金山時值高溫熱浪和天花疫情的無情襲擊，宛如人間煉獄。中國城巷內住著三位舞者：布蘭琪、布蘭琪的男友亞瑟、以及亞瑟的男友埃內斯特，複雜的三角關係，在奇特的謎樣女子金妮介入後變得更加撲朔迷離，許多祕密被逐一揭穿，原有一切全變了樣，還致使其中一人死於非命……

而目睹命案經過的布蘭琪發誓要在三天內找出殺害金妮的兇手，但卻不知危險已悄悄逼近自己，呼之欲出的真相，連帶著也要賠上三人極力隱藏的秘密…