Praise for Effie Perine:

Meet Effie, a smart, snappy heroine with enough moxie to evoke Hepburn as she fights and fakes her way through that adventure which is life. Effie Perine sizzles with crackling prose and a stylish plot that kept this modern Girl Friday reading to the wee hours.

-- Leslie Miller, Author and Editor, Women Who Eat and A Moment's Peace.

If you enjoy a good tale of suspense or a good romance, you’ll find both here. Effie Perine offers an entrance into a world you'll wish you could inhabit for hundreds more pages. In the end, it is a wonderful story about how life’s little mysteries can help us solve the biggest ones--like how is it that we want to live our lives and where do we start? Give this one a try and you just might figure it out.

-- Dawn Skorczewski, Director of University Writing and Professor of English at Brandeis University and author of Anne Sexton's Secrets (Routledge: 2012)

Effie Perine might have been only a minor character in The Maltese Falcon, but Jackson's brilliantly rendered plot and crisp dialogue bring Spade's smart young secretary into sharp focus. In the hands of a writer with an astonishing ability to lend a modern sensibility to the rhythms of vintage detective fiction, Effie Perine becomes more than merely a fun and absorbing read. It's a love song to a nearly forgotten genre.

-- Bay Anapol, Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, honored by the O. Henry Award, Pushcart Prize, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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