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Ellen Pall, a novelist whose prose has been praised as "precise, shrewd, and brightly amusing" ("Kirkus Reviews"), with sentences that are "good enough to eat" ("The New Yorker"), is the author of "Back East "and "Among the Ginzburgs"; she has also written many Regency romances under the pen name Fiona Hill. As a freelance journalist, she has written extensively on people in the arts for "The New York Times "and other publications. She lives in Manhattan.
Genres: Mystery
Ellen Pall recommends
A Man of Lies (2023)
Ben Crane
"A Man of Lies is the kind of book you never want to end, a muscular thrill ride with an exhilarating intellectual workout on the side. I started it unsure whether I could get into a book set in the Chicago underworld, but Crane writes with tremendous cleverness, compassion, and wit, and he has a superb command of language and craft. His narrator, Barrett Rye, is a genuinely unique, a fully dimensional character, and very, very good company. The book delivers twist after twist, surprise after surprise. Crane's knowledge of the seamy world he takes the reader into is so compelling and intimate that you start to wonder if he learned it or lived it. A terrific read."
