Serenade

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781780220208

Price: £8.99

ON SALE: 23rd June 2011

Genre: Classic Crime / Crime & Mystery / Mexico / Suspense

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‘Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people’ SATURDAY REVIEW

Serenade is the story of the eternal triangle – with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with terrible consequences.

Reviews

the story builds to a stunning and complex climax ... how brilliant that a new generation has the chance to discover this compelling writer.
Joanna Hines, GUARDIAN
It is no accident that movies based on three [of Cain's novels] helped to define the genre known as film noir
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS
Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people
SATURDAY REVIEW