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It Is Time to Catch Up With the Schuyler Family

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Wicked City is the first novel in the Jazz Age series by Beatriz Williams.   She begins the tale in New York City, but takes readers back to a very historical time in this city.   What were times like back then?   How will this tale begin? Facebook   Twitter     Instagram “When she discovers her banker, husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village. Her charismatic musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes up—laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream—even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the basement was home to one of the city’s most notorious speakeasies. In 1924, Geneva “Gin” Kelly, a quick-witted flapper from the hills of western Maryland, is a regular at this Village hideaway. Caught up in a raid, Gin lands in the office of Prohibition enforcement