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Duplicate keys

Jane Smiley

1984305 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1984
first published
  • 1984Knopf · 305 pages · ENGISBN 9780394530659
  • 1984Cape · 305 pages · ENGISBN 9780224021814
  • 1984Curley · 469 pages · ENGISBN 9780893408886
  • 1986Sphere · 305 pages · ENGISBN 9780722179314
  • 1993Fawcett Columbine · 305 pages · ENGISBN 9780449908792
  • 2004Anchor Books · 305 pages · ENGISBN 9781400076024
  • 1996Flamingo · 320 pagesISBN 9780006547471

They were six friends from the Midwest who moved to New York City with the high hopes of making a big-time splash in the music industry. Though the dream faded, the bonds between the tight-knit group did not. Or so it seemed. For one brilliantly sunny day, Alice Ellis discovers the grisly murders of two of the group, shot dead in the apartment for which any number of friends, acquaintances, and strangers had an extra set of keys. Written with the depth and passion of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres, Duplicate Keys is a riveting suspense story about the emotional aftermath of murder - the jealousy and hatred, the deception and rage, and the shocking secrets that lie between even the closest of friends.

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