The Last Note of Warning, Katharine Schellman
The Last Note of Warning, Katharine Schellman
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The Last Note of Warning

Author: Katharine Schellman

Narrator: Sara Young

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2024


Synopsis

Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she’s a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city’s wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York’s underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found, if not love, then something like it with her bootlegger sweetheart, Leo, even if she can't quite forget the allure of the Nightingale's sultry owner, Honor Huxley. Then the husband of a wealthy client is discovered dead in his study, and Vivian was the last known person to see him alive. With the police and the press both eager to name a culprit, she finds herself the primary suspect. She can’t flee town without endangering the people she loves, but Vivian isn’t the sort of girl to go down without a fight. She'll cash in every favor she has from the criminals she calls friends to prove she had no connection to the dead man. But the more Vivian digs into the man’s life, and as the police close in on her, the harder it is to avoid the truth: someone she knows wanted him dead. And the best way to get away with murder is to set up a girl like Vivian to take the fall.

About Katharine Schellman

Katharine Schellman studied theatre and history at the College of William & Mary, after which she went on to dance professionally, marry her college sweetheart, and collect addresses up and down the east coast of the United States. The Body in the Garden is her debut novel, although she has previously published a variety of short fiction and essays. She currently lives and writes in the mountains of Virginia and is still recovering from that time she worked in political consulting.

About Sara Young

Sara Young is an experienced audiobook narrator, actor, voice artist, and writer. She attended Case Western Reserve University, where she studied theatre and economics, and enjoys watching horror movies in her free time. A native of Toledo, Ohio, she currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Louise on December 02, 2024

This series is perfect for readers who love mysteries and historical fiction, especially if the 1920s interest you. With The Last Note of Warning, we are back in New York City in the 1920s, which means Prohibition and speakeasies. It’s a time when women were venturing beyond their traditional roles......more

Goodreads review by Yamini on May 09, 2024

Juggling her life between the day job managing Dress deliveries to the Elite art of society and at night dissolving herself in the back-alley life of Nightingale, Vivian is paying the price of her freedom with hard work. But when she goes knocking on one of the doors for dress delivery, trouble find......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 16, 2024

I know this book is one of a series but do we have to repeat the same thing in every book? Also when does this character sleep?......more

Goodreads review by Sarah-Grace (Azrael865) on June 10, 2024

Vivian works late into the night at a speakeasy.....she also works a day job delivering dresses to wealthy clients. No one ever thought that it would be her day job that would land her in trouble. As she waits for customer the husband is very kind to her. When he is called away by a maid announcing......more

Goodreads review by Tabby on August 20, 2024

I love this series! Such a scrappy heroine. I especially liked the ticking clock and high stakes in this third installment. There are so many interesting characters, but Schellman makes it easy to tell them apart. I feel like I am in this world, and I can't get enough. The covers are gorgeous. Ready......more


Quotes

"While delivering dresses to a wealthy customer, [Vivian] discovers the body of the homeowner . . . Narrator Sarah Young offers a strong performance, capturing the era’s spirit of revelry and offering period-appropriate voices and accents. [T]his book should appeal to fans of glitzy historical mysteries." –Library Journal