Last Call at the Nightingale

Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman

9781250831828

315 Pages

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books

Release Date: June 7, 2022

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, New York, 1920s, Prohibition, LGBTQIA

Irish sisters, Vivian and Florence Kelly were orphans. When they were of age, the nuns made sure they had respectable jobs as dressmakers. Vivian, however, needs more out of life and spends her nights at the Nightingale speakeasy. Her best friend, Bea, is a young Black woman working at the Nightingale as a waitress. The bartender, Danny, is a young Chinese man and works at his family’s restaurant during the day. They are surprised when out on a smoke break in the alley behind the building they find a dead man. Bea wants to just forget about it but Vivian is intrigued and wants to find out who he was, why he is dead, and who killed him. Her actions have consequences that will affect everyone associated with her.

This book is fast paced, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. I really enjoy reading books circa 1902s. It gives us a different perspective than the way things are now (liquor is legal). If you like a quick mystery based in the 20s era, you will enjoy this book.