Review: Queenpin by Megan Abbott

Today, in January Magazine’s crime fiction section, contributing editor James R. Winter reviews Queenpin by Megan Abbott. Winter says:

We never learn our protagonist’s name in Megan Abbott’s latest novel, Queenpin, but we certainly get to know her and the mysterious Gloria Denton. Gloria rocks our heroine’s world in the waning days of the American mob’s golden era. She is a legend, admired and feared perhaps more than any gun-toting thug. She even has the scars from the one time she crossed one of her bosses.

Read the full review here.