This “charming, confident follow-up to Creatures of Will and Temper” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) picks up in 1927 Long Island, where Ellie West fishes by day and sells moonshine by night to the citizens of her home town. But after Ellie’s father joins a mysterious church whose parishioners possess supernatural powers and a violent hatred for immigrants, Ellie finds she doesn’t know her beloved island, or her father, as well as she thought. From 1920 to 1933 the U.S. banned the sale, production, transportation, and importation of alcoholic beverages. But where there’s a will there’s a way, so people were still doing all of that, just illegally and sneakily. So of course it’s a great time period to set a story! We asked and you delivered by telling us your favorite prohibition-era reads! The Diviners by Libba Bray Dollface by Renee Rosen The Phryne Fisher Murder Mysteries series by Kerry Greenwood Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin The Paris Wife by Paula McLain Flappers, Flasks and Foul Play by Ellen Mansoor Collier The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent Live by Night by Dennis Lehane Bitter Spirits by Jenn Bennett A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams
