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Jazzed
- Author
- Jill Dearman
- Narrator
- Orlagh Cassidy
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 14 February 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Academic geniuses Wilhelmina “Will” Reinhardt and Dorothy “Dolly” Raab become roommates at Barnard in the early 1920s, a time when college for women was a rarity.
Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother’s death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies.
Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their romance ignites. But while Will is obsessed with Dolly, Dolly is obsessed with crime. The power dynamics keep shifting as Will agrees to commit petty crimes with Dolly in exchange for sexual favors.
When the University and their rich families unite to split them up, passions escalate. To strike back at those who deny them the right to be together, they plot another crime: murder.
A gender-swapped take on the infamous “Leopold and Loeb” case, Jazzed is part historical fiction, part true crime. Juxtaposing the thrilling scientific breakthroughs in quantum physics and artistic explosion of the Harlem Renaissance with the pseudoscience of eugenics and anti-immigration fervor that also defined the era, the novel mirrors today’s polarized world and moves with the fast-paced rhythm of jazz itself.
Critics Review
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“Dearman’s Jazz Age melodrama…set in a richly atmospheric panorama of New York in the Roaring ’20s…A wildly entertaining and energetic period thriller.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“Orlagh Cassidy delivers a strong performance of Jill Dearman’s captivating novel…[and] captures the frenetic Jazz Age and the compelling nature of obsessive love…As Dolly’s compulsion for increasingly risky behavior escalates, Cassidy gives her an irresistible intensity…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
AudioFile
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“Rife with authentic period detail and sizzling with complex and obsessive psychological realism, Jazzed will rivet you right through to its haunting final pages.”
Tim Murphy, author of Christadora
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“An unforgettable duo brimming with murderous passion and lusting for revenge on the society which won’t accept them.”
Steven Powell, author of Love Me Fierce in Danger
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“[A] thrill ride of a novel. Dearman deftly creates a wild, sexy, and poignant world of Jazz Age Sapphic love, sisterhood, prohibition, booze, freedom, Harlem rent parties, Barnard classrooms, and wealthy Jewish homes.”
Carley Moore, author of The Not Wives
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Details
- Author
- Jill Dearman
- Narrator
- Orlagh Cassidy
- Duration
- 9 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212169691
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Thriller / suspense fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
Academic geniuses Wilhelmina “Will” Reinhardt and Dorothy “Dolly” Raab become roommates at Barnard in the early 1920s, a time when college for women was a rarity.Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother’s death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies.Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their romance ignites. But while Will is obsessed with Dolly, Dolly is obsessed with crime. The power dynamics keep shifting as Will agrees to commit petty crimes with Dolly in exchange for sexual favors.When the University and their rich families unite to split them up, passions escalate. To strike back at those who deny them the right to be together, they plot another crime: murder.A gender-swapped take on the infamous “Leopold and Loeb” case, Jazzed is part historical fiction, part true crime. Juxtaposing the thrilling scientific breakthroughs in quantum physics and artistic explosion of the Harlem Renaissance with the pseudoscience of eugenics and anti-immigration fervor that also defined the era, the novel mirrors today’s polarized world and moves with the fast-paced rhythm of jazz itself.
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