The Spectacular

 Fiona Davis, one of the authors I pull off the library shelf without even reading the front flap of the book, has written her newest New York historical fiction novel.  The Spectacular is another in a series of compelling novels.

Davis writes about the history of New York and this time she has focused on Radio City Music Hall.  She writes a story of the young women who try out for and become the iconic Rockettes.  So many young dancers grow up watching the Rockettes perform at Radio City dreaming of becoming one of the matching line dancers. 

Back in the 1970s I remember going into The City and watching the chorus line and their beautiful costumes and high synchronized kicks before a movie would play. The history of the Rockettes is amazing and the added to that this book tells the story of the Mad Bomber, who was setting bombs all of New York City and took the police a year to find.  The police for the first time enlisted the help of a criminologist and psychiatrist to give a psychological profile of the criminal. 

Davis brings all these elements into a suspenseful novel about Marion, a young girl from the suburbs destined to marry and have a family, who decides she wants more from life. She audtitions for the Rockettes and is surprised to be selected.  She lives in New York with other dancers and gets involved in solving the case of the "Big Apple Bomber".  

Read a entertaining novel and learn some New York City history with the Fiona Davis novel, The Spectacular