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Criminal Gold
Criminal Gold
Criminal Gold
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Criminal Gold

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Midnight, New York Harbor, 1949. Cantor Gold, dapper dyke-about-town, smuggler of fine art, waits in her boat under the Brooklyn Bridge for racketeer Gregory Ortine. In the shadow of the bridge, he’ll toss Cantor a satchel of cash, and she’ll toss him a pouch containing a priceless jewel. But the plan, and the jewel, sink when a woman in a red sequined dress drops from the bridge and slams onto Cantor’s boat. She is Opal Shaw, Society Page darling and fiancée of murder-for-hire kingpin Sig Loreale. Through a night of danger, desire, and double-cross, Cantor must satisfy Loreale’s vengeance, stay ahead of an angry Ortine, and untangle the knots of murder tightening around Opal’s best friend and keeper of her dirty secrets, Celeste Copley, a seductress who excites Cantor’s passion but snares her in a labyrinth of lies. The lies explode in a collision of love, loyalty, lust...and death.

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Release dateNov 17, 2014
ISBN9781626392731
Criminal Gold
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Ann Aptaker

Native New Yorker Ann Aptaker’s Cantor Gold Crime series has been the recipient of Lambda Literary and Golden Crown Literary Society Awards. Her short stories have appeared in two editions of the crime anthology Fedora, Switchblade Magazine’s “Stiletto Heeled” issue, and the Mickey Finn crime anthology. Culminating a career as a curator for museums and galleries and a professor of Art History, Ann is currently an art writer for various New York clients.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I'm a little torn on the rating for this book but, ultimately, I really enjoyed the language and the plot. I never felt the chemistry between Cantor and Celeste and that hurt my enjoyment of the overall book. I just couldn't get past the way that Cantor acted with and thought about Celeste after only a few hours when it's pretty clearly stated that Celeste is a liar, a user, and straight...

    But the ending was pretty damn good! And I did really like the language and the historical aspect.

    Overall, good job and I do recommend it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Wonderful I enjoy this book immensely Love to character love the story line and the 1947 Backdrop. Can't wait to be the next book

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