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 New York City, 1929. The economy is booming, prohibition is widely ignored, high fashion is sexy and life is very good. Pink Ladies and Tom Collins happily wet the whistles of guys and dolls in smoke-filled underground speakeasies and playing jazz is a nighttime fancy. But in October 1929, something big is about to occur: the arrival of Miss Jeri Devlin and the Stock Market Crash.
Jill Shure's time-bending love story, Night Jazz, is magnificently described as The Great Gatsby-meet-Somewhere In Time. Jeri Devlin, a 25 year-old advertising executive, is falling apart. The mysterious disappearance of her brother is keeping her from doing her job. Urged by her brazen boss to grab life by its feet and look for her brother, Jeri leaves Los Angeles and sets out for New York. Jeri is transported back seventy years to a magical time when the black cloud of the Great Depression was just beginning to swoop over America. From smoky speakeasies to elegant mansions, Jeri finds her brother, but he does not recognize her. During her search, Jeri meets a blue-eyed, charming gangster, Lex Rose, who sweeps Jeri off of her feet and seduces her into his underworld life.
| Jeri soon loses sight of the Nineties woman she once was and becomes the most beautiful doll in New York. What Jeri doesn't know is that handsome Lex Rose has secrets that Jeri tries to unravel. In all the corruption and chaos, a true romance blossoms as their two worlds collide.
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 Night Jazz is the winner of the 2002 Ben Franklin Award for Popular Fiction ! | ||||
