{"product_id":"9781619353152","title":"Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel","description":"Lake City, Florida, June, 1930: Al Capone checks in for an unusually long stay at the Blanche Hotel, a nice enough joint for an insignificant little whistle stop. The following night, young Jack Blevins witnesses a body being dumped heralding the summer of violence to come. One-by-one, \u003cbr\u003epeople controlling county vice activities swing from KKK ropes. No moonshine distributor, gaming operator, or brothel madam, black or white, is safe from the Klan's self-righteous vigilantism. Jack's older sister Meg, a waitress at the Blanche, and her fiancé, a sheriff's deputy, discover reasons to believe the lynchings are cover for a much larger ambition than simply ridding the county of vice. Someone, \u003cbr\u003epossibly backed by Capone, has secret plans for filling the voids created by the killings. But as the body count grows and crosses burn, \u003cbr\u003ethey come to realize this knowledge may get all of them killed. \u003cp\u003eGainesville, Florida, August, 2011: Liz Reams, an up and coming young academic specializing in the history of American crime, impulsively moves across the continent to follow a man who convinces her of his devotion yet refuses to say the three simple words \"I love you\". Despite the entreaties of friends and family, she is attracted to edginess and a certain type of glamour in her men, both living and historical. Her personal life is an emotional roller coaster, but her career options suddenly blossom beyond all expectation, creating a very different type of stress. To deal with it all, Liz loses herself in her professional passion, original research into the life and times of her favorite bad boy, Al Capone. What she discovers about 1930's summer of violence, \u003cbr\u003eand herself in the process, leaves her reeling at first and then changed forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soul Mate Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031811047664,"sku":"9781619353152","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619353152_p0.jpg?v=1763855657","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619353152","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}