Unseasonably Cold

When beloved socialite and columnist Jane Abbot disappears without a trace from her home in late-1930s New York City, her best friend Liza, and their circle of acquaintances are enveloped in a fog of suspicions, secrets, and deceptions, while the police and the press struggle to solve the mystery.

With beautifully observed period detail and sharply drawn characters, Unseasonably Cold, best-selling author Amy Ephron's tenth novel, is classic storytelling, an elegant, melancholy noir, a mystery crafted with an artist's eye.

Rendered in Ephron's lovely, austere literary prose, it is utterly worthy of the era it depicts, when the polite mask of high society's mannered calm disguised the turbulence, grief, and fear just beneath; a mirror for the terrible events swirling in Europe at the lead-up to the Second World War.

"Altogether intriguing-haunting, even-and I couldn't have enjoyed myself more." 

- Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer's English 

"Atmospheric. Propulsive. Captivating. Pure Amy."

- Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The View from Lake Como

"I was enthralled from the first page to the very last. A fascinating, compelling read that I thought about for a long time after. It's not a book to be missed."

- Jill Santopolo, New York Times best-selling author of The Light We Lost