'Between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business.' So says Madam Parks to young Eliza Ripple, who is now working as a prostitute in Gold Rush-era California after her brutish husband was killed in a bar fight. Eliza knows this truth all too well. But instead of letting that truth paralyze her, she leans into the danger that freedom brings. When some of her fellow working girls go missing, Eliza and friend Jean take it upon themselves to investigate the murders — a mystery the male authorities in Monterey are content to ignore.

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2022/12/23/jane-smiley-on-her-new-novel-a-dangerous-business

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