It is 1923, and while she may hear every detail about shootings, knifings, and murders, as soon as she leaves the interrogation room she is once again the weaker sex, best suited for filing and making coffee. A typist in a New York City Police Department precinct, Rose is like a high priestess. With a few strokes of the keys that sit before her, she can send a person away for life in prison. Ripley and The Great Gatsby comes one of the most memorable unreliable narrators in years. A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative.”- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewįor fans of The Talented Mr. “Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell’s debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan…. Library Binding, Large Print (September 1st, 2013): $35.READERS GUIDE Questions and Topics for Discussion.The Other Typist is an elegant debut.” -The Millions Product Details “Rindell is a fine writer, and she’s written a suspenseful and well executed novel. “With Rose as its sly and slightly unreliable narrator, this suspenseful story will keep you guessing.” -Bookpage Revealing that there is a murderous twist in Suzanne Rindell’s spellbinder isn’t a spoiler but an essential for enjoying the exhilarating buildup.”- Daily Candy “ perfect social comedy: A plain young typist working for the New York Police Department in the 1920s becomes obsessed with a glamorous co-worker. “A thrilling riff on the classic noir and an impressive first novel.”- Christian Science Monitor “A story of glamour, prohibition, obsession and corruption, with a fantastic Hitchcockian twist, The Other Typist is a great way to kick off a summer of reading.”-KMUW 89.1, Wichita Public Radio “Best for those who can’t get enough of The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties.This thrilling page-turner cinematically captures the opulence-and sordidness-of the Prohibition Era in New York.”. I had a blast reading this and had my nerves scrambled by the end.”-Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver But it’s New York, not the nice young woman, who should be trembling. The Other Typist pretends to be the story of a nice young woman entering the cutthroat world of police work in 1920s New York. “You could make a one-sitting read of The Other Typist: it maintains the riveting dance of question-provoking answers that earn page-turners their name, and Suzanne Rindell’s Jazz Age NYC is gritty, glamorous, and utterly absorbing.you’ll want to talk about The Other Typist.”-Alison Atlee, author of The Typewriter Girl It’s chilling till the very end.”-Rita Mae Brown, MFH, Author “As you read this remarkable first novel you will feel the room temperature drop. Don’t start this novel at night if you need your beauty sleep-you’ll stay up to all hours devouring its pages.”-Alice LaPlante, New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind “This eerie and compelling debut is a riveting page-turner, narrated by a strangely hypnotic yet dubious young woman who works as a typist for the NYPD in the 1920s. The best book I’ve read so far this summer.”- Greenwich Time “If you liked Gone Girl, you might enjoy.
She captures it quite well, while at the same time spinning a delicate and suspenseful narrative about false friendship, obsession, and life for single women in New York during Prohibition.” - Booklist “With hints toward The Great Gatsby, Rindell’s novel aspires to recreate Prohibition-era New York City, both its opulence and its squalid underbelly. Ripley in this psychological thriller by first-time author Rindell.”-Los Angeles Public Library's Best Fiction of 2013 “It's The Great Gatsby meets The Talented Mr. “Rindell's debut is a cinematic page-turner.”- Publishers Weekly “Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell’s debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative.”- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “From the first page was absorbed.Suzanne Rindell’s story of a 1920s police stenographer who becomes increasingly obsessed with a glamorous new typist reminds me at points of Notes on a Scandal and Patricia Highsmith, but has creepy charms all its own.”- The Paris Review
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