TY - BOOK AU - Bilyeau,Nancy TI - Dreamland SN - 9781911445968 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Endeavour Quill KW - Socialites KW - Fiction KW - Bookstores KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - "Scandals, dynasties & dangerous secrets ... a sizzling summer in America's playground."--Cover N2 - The year is 1911 when twenty-year-old heiress Peggy Batternberg is invited to spend the summer in America's Playground. The invitation to Coney Island is unwelcome. Despite hailing from one of America's richest families, Peggy would much rather spend the summer working at the Moonrise Bookstore than keeping up appearances with New York City socialites and her snobbish, controlling family. But soon it transpires that the hedonism of Coney Island affords Peggy the freedom she has been yearning for, and it's not long before she finds herself in love with a troubled pier-side artist of humble means, whom the Batternberg patriarchs would surely disapprove of. Disapprove they may, but hidden behind their pomposity lurks a web of deceit, betrayal, and deadly secrets. And as bodies begin to mount up amidst the sweltering clamor of Coney Island, it seems the powerful Batternbergs can get away with anything... even murder ER -