Gramercy Park

New York City, May 1894. Mario Alfieri, a world-famous tenor, seeks only a house and few months of relative quiet before his Metropolitan Opera debut. Clara Adler, the dispossessed ward of a recently deceased millionaire, has secrets she has yet to dis-cover. Their chance meeting in a Gramercy Park mansion kindles a love as swift as it is unexpected, entangles them in an intrigue stretching back two decades, and earns them an implacable enemy.

Paula Cohen is a native New Yorker with an addiction to the opera and all things Victorian. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband. Gramercy Park is her first novel.

“Leave[s] us amazed at her ability to re-create a vital, graceful, almost elegiac world.” –Chicago Tribune

“High society, mystery and opera merge in Cohen’s haunting first novel.” –New York Daily News

“With a compelling plot and lush description, Paula Cohen tells an involved tale of wealth, power, secrets, and surprise in high society.” –Susan Vreeland, author of The Passion of Artemisia

“Gramercy Park has everything we need in a book: cliffhangers, plot twists, and surprises galore.” –Katherine Neville, author of The Eight and The Magic Circle

“An excellent read, refreshing...brings to mind Victorian novels, with shades of Dickens in its considerable drama and suspense. Moreover, Cohen is a masterful storyteller who skillfully draws readers into her plot and characters.” –Chattanooga Times Free-Press

“A dazzler...[an] intriguing tale of love, suspense and Gothic terror.” –Arizona Daily Star

“Suspenseful drama...with a sly and absorbing plot” –Publishers Weekly

“[An] irresistible concoction of civilized terror.” –Booklist

“Keeps readers engaged” –People

“New twists unfold on every page” –Rocky Mountain News

“Plot twists, a remorseless villain, and a rags-to-riches triumph impel readers to keep turning pages.” –Library Journal

“A plot-twisting tale of scandal, intrigue, and the upper crust.” –Book Street USA

“A talented author whose creativity is matched by a rare fluency, a flow of words almost poetical in nature” –Provincetown Banner