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Rose Baker is a quiet and efficient typist in a police precinct in 1923 New York City. Having been raised in an orphanage she understands how to blend into the woodwork, proving her worth by her skills and hard work, and never taking liberties when she transcribes criminals’ confessions. An applicant for a vacancy is clearly very different from the mousy Rose. Odalie is chic and confident, and quickly draws the precinct sergeant, detective and beat cops under her spell. Rose is in turns astonish
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I was really intrigued by this book. I have to admit it started out pretty slowly. I was seriously considering giving up at one point, and then somewhere around page 85 one sentence changed the entire book for me. From then on I was trying to figure out exactly what was going on. That's not to say the book was perfect from that point on, because it wasn't. I still found it to be a slow read. But there was still enough to keep me going. The ending, while a little more ambiguous than I would have
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May 04, 2014
Lisa
marked it as to-read
