The Secret Lives of Dentists
Seventh Street Books · Print & ebook · April 20, 2021
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in a 1950s murder case and its trial
- Themes
- Murder investigation, Criminal trial, Prejudice in prosecution
- Genres
- Historical Mystery, Legal Fiction
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In 1955, small-town girls flock to Minneapolis for work, love, and adventure. But Teresa Hickman, from Dollar, North Dakota, is a special case. Beguiling. Promiscuous. And, on a chilly April morning, dead along an abandoned trolley track in a Southside neighborhood. Teresa Hickman was three months pregnant when she was strangled. Was the unborn child’s father also her killer?
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Could the killer have been––among the many men drawn to her like flies to honey––Dr. H. David Rose, a middle-aged dentist who admits he was with her the night she died? There’s no forensic evidence or credible witnesses tying him to the murder. Yet the police, including a pair of obsessive investigators with lethal secrets of their own, agree that a Jewish dentist will get them a conviction. Dr. Rose’s spectacular trial and its shocking aftermath will mesmerize the Upper Midwest like few crime sagas before or since.
Where it sits
| Historical Mystery | 66% |
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| Legal Fiction | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Police Procedurals
- Historical Mystery
- Historical Thrillers
- Authors
- W.A. Winter
- Publisher
- Seventh Street Books
- Published
- April 20, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Murder investigation · Criminal trial · Prejudice in prosecution
- Reading lane
- Police Procedurals