The shooting death of a man at the club raises the stakes. When Emily discovers that two of her children-Jack, a physician who served in France, and Lizzie, an aspiring sculptor-were friends of the victim, Emily must follow them into the notorious Bohemian circle of the Dil Pickle Club, where revolutionaries, mobsters, and intellectuals such as Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and Sherwood Anderson once congregated to read poetry and discuss politics. Meanwhile, Emily gets drawn into a murder investigation involving Flora Murphy, a notorious gambling king’s second wife, who’s accused of shooting her younger lover. Set in 1918 Chicago, McNamara’s excellent ninth Emily Cabot mystery (after 2020’s Death on the Home Front ) finds Emily’s physician husband, Stephen, serving on the front lines of the Spanish Influenza epidemic. AVAILABLE NOW Death in a Time of Spanish Flu
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