Read and Download Ebook City of Liars and Thieves... City of Liars and Thieves Eve Karlin PDF File: City of Liars and Thieves... 1 Read and Download Ebook City of Liars and Thieves... City of Liars and Thieves Eve Karlin City of Liars and Thieves Eve Karlin A crime that rocked a city. A case that stunned a nation. Based on the United States’ first recorded murder trial, Eve Karlin’s spellbinding debut novel re-creates early nineteenth-century New York City, where a love affair ends in a brutal murder and a conspiracy involving Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr erupts in shattering violence. It is high time to tell the truth. Time for justice. How she was murdered and why she haunts me. It is not only Elma’s story, it’s mine. On the bustling docks of the Hudson River, Catherine Ring waits with her husband and children for the ship carrying her cousin, Elma Sands. Their Greenwich Street boardinghouse becomes a haven for Elma, who has at last escaped the stifling confines of her small hometown and the shameful circumstances of her birth. But in the summer of 1799, Manhattan remains a teeming cesspool of stagnant swamps and polluted rivers. The city is desperate for clean water as fires wreak devastation and the death toll from yellow fever surges. Political tensions are rising, too. It’s an election year, and Alexander Hamilton is hungry for power. So is his rival, Aaron Burr, who has announced the formation of the Manhattan Water Company. But their private struggle becomes very public when the body of Elma Sands is found at the bottom of a city well built by Burr’s company. Resolved to see justice done, Catherine becomes both witness and avenger. She soon finds, however, that the shocking truth behind this trial has nothing to do with guilt or innocence. City of Liars and Thieves Details Date : Published January 13th 2015 by Alibi ISBN : 9781101883051 Author : Eve Karlin Format : ebook 266 pages Genre : Historical, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller Download City of Liars and Thieves ...pdf Read Online City of Liars and Thieves ...pdf Download and Read Free Online City of Liars and Thieves Eve Karlin PDF File: City of Liars and Thieves... 2 Read and Download Ebook City of Liars and Thieves... From Reader Review City of Liars and Thieves for online ebook Maia Chance says Absolutely fascinating. A novelized account of a historical murder in New York City in the nineteenth century. Karlin brings it all alive with sensuous details and creepy dread, plus a wonderfully-drawn subplot about motherhood and marriage. Toni says City of Liars and Thieves, by Eve Karlin, is an amazing work of historical fiction that recounts the first recorder murder trial in our country. Karlin breathes life into Elma, Caty and Levi, the real-life characters that were otherwise passed over in history books because of corrupt politics. Karlin gives justice to Elma, may she finally rest in peace, whose tragic fate was exploited and used as nothing more than a political upgrade for Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, the courtroom players. Her attention to detail brings turn of the 19th century New York City to life in such a clear, distinct way, with all of your senses alive as to what living there must have been like. City of Liars and Thieves is a page-turner and hard to put down! CLM says Here is a link to my review: http://perfectretort.blogspot.com/201... Diane S ? says What a fascinating read this turned out to be, so much history that I knew of so little. Caty Ringer and her husband Elias are running a boarding house in Manhattan in the late 1790's. Needing help, her cousin Elma comes to stay, a young woman with an unmarried mother, father unknown. A fact City's husband frowns on. In this society at this time period and as Quakers, many already consider Elma a woman of loose morals. Clean water is a precious commodity and hard to come by. Aaron Burr promised to dig wells and being clean water to Manhattan. One well is dug but it soon becomes clear that Burr has different plans. The first recorded murder trial in America, finds Burr and Hamilton working together to defend the supposed murderer of Elma. Such a highly charged political time, Burr, Hamilton, Jefferson and the hotly contested election of 1800. Secret plots, back door dealings and a young woman who gets caught in the middle and pays with her life. So incredibly interesting. The book ends with an afterward from the author stating not only what is true or not, but also following these characters and letting us know what happens to them in the future, politically and personally. Apparently the well that Elam is found in still actually exists in the basement of a building still standing. Amazing really how some history remains, lingers in stories and places. PDF File: City of Liars and Thieves... 3 Read and Download Ebook City of Liars and Thieves... The author did a wonderful job in bringing this period of history to life, letting us feel the time period and the real people that were part of this terrible tragedy. A very good read for history and true crime readers. ARC from NetGalley. Zeb Kantrowitz says This is the novelization of the first recorded murder trial in the United States. A young woman disappears and is found at the bottom of a well. Who killed her and put her in there? Wrapped around the investigation of the murder is the story of the well itself and the lack of potable water in Manhattan as New York continues to expand north into what had previously been farm country. Catherine Ring had made her way to New York with her husband and children. He ran a general store and she ran a boardinghouse. Catherine is overwhelmed by all that she has to do and deal with. She convinces her cousin, Elma Sands, to come to New York to help her. Elma couldn’t wait to get out of the town that she and Catherine grew up in, in Upstate New York. Emma carried the stigma of being the child of an unwed mother. Elma takes to New York like a bird released from a cage. She begins ‘stepping-out’ with one of the boarders who happens to be the brother of a well-connected merchant. When Elma fails to come home one night, Catherine fears the worst. Her body is finally found at the bottom of a well, that was supposed to be part of a new fresh water system. Aaron Burr was one of the major backers (along with Alexander Hamilton, and the merchant brother) of this new private water system. Catherine’s husband had gotten involved in the water company. Normally a teetotaler had begun to drink under the strain of the delay in the water system. The stock company behind the water system turns out to be a ploy to help Burr and Hamilton to set-up a bank. The system (except for some trial wells) was never going to be built. Knowing Elma’s background, her young man was never going to be allowed to marry her. So who killed Elma and why? The trial (using parts of the original transcripts) opens one’s eyes to the ‘type’ of justice that was available at the end of the eighteenth century. Your can see how the wealthy and well- connected were treated were able to bend the law to serve their own purposes. Eve Karlin does a fine job in bringing out the situations that woman and the poor lived under at the beginning of the Republic. Zeb Kantrowitz zworstblog.blogspot.com Peggy says Fascinating historical details and an intriguing scandal that feels as relevant today as it was 200 years ago. Our founding fathers were not necessarily moral and young women were not always virtuous. Recommended for all, especially those who love New York City. PDF File: City of Liars and Thieves... 4 Read and Download Ebook City of Liars and Thieves... Liz Rosenbaum says Karlin brings a fresh and compelling perspective to a murder trial that riveted the nascent city of Manhattan. The story she tells deftly reveals the secrets of an iconic American legal dream team, Hamilton and Burr, four years before their infamous duel. A gripping, little-known chapter of history, exquisitely told. Susan Foulkes says A wonderfully written murder mystery....it wasn't until I'd finished the book that I discovered the novel was based on true events. Eve Karlin excels at descriptive writing. I could clearly picture the nascent Manhattan with its filth and mosquitoes...shudder... and the much calmer (and cleaner) Cornwall, 60 miles up the Hudson River. Her characters are just as well written. They all have depth and are flawed and troubled just as we all are in real life. We follow the story through the eyes of Caty as it is her cousin, Elma, who is the victim. The book is so much more than a murder mystery, it also touches on faith (Caty and her family are Quakers) and how difficult it can be to hold on to that faith when bad things happen. Politicians are not spared, nor are corrupt business men, their machinations and lobbying are still present in society today...plus ca change! One thing that has, thankfully, changed is the stigma of being born illegitimate. It was the oppressive and judgemental small town life of Cornwall that led to Elma arriving in New York.