Author: Michael Wolriach
Genre: History/ True Crime
ARC: Audiobook
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Publication Date: February 6, 2024
My Rating: 3 stars
Synopsis:
Vivian Goardon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolates Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names-businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commisssion had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been excuted to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham's powerful machine--the infamous Tammary Hall.
My Thoughts:
While I enjoy a true crime book as much as the next person, I have to say I was very disappointed with this book. There was entirely to much detail in this book. There was a lot of details that went into to much explanations.
Again it was interesting but I became really bored with this after I listened to about 40 percent of the book. I am giving this 3 stars.
About the Author:
Michael Wolraich is the critically acclaimed author of The Bishoop and the Butterfly (2024), Unreasonable Men (2014), and Blowing Smoke( 2010). His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Reuters, and CNN. Wolraich grew up in Iowa and graduated froms Williams College in Massachuetts before falling in love with New York City, where he has lived since 2000.
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