![]() So is his rival, Aaron Burr, who has announced the formation of the Manhattan Water Company. It’s an election year, and Alexander Hamilton is hungry for power. The city is desperate for clean water as fires wreak devastation and the death toll from yellow fever surges. But in the summer of 1799, Manhattan remains a teeming cesspool of stagnant swamps and polluted rivers. 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. ![]() On the bustling docks of the Hudson River, Catherine Ring waits with her husband and children for the ship carrying her cousin, Elma Sands. How she was murdered and why she haunts me. 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. ![]()
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