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I listened to The Address, by Fiona Davis, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld and Brittany Pressley. As with Davis's previous novel, the setting is an iconic NYC building--in The Dollhouse, it was the Barbizon, in The Address, it's the Dakota.
The novel focuses on a London woman who is the luxury apartment building's "lady managerette" when it opens in 1884, and her involvement with one of the architects, who is murdered in his apartment. A second timeline involves his descendants, who still retain the apartment, a hundred years later.
Although some of the secondary characters seemed to go off the rails a bit, the book was quite enjoyable, with its descriptions of old New York's Upper West Side as the city was expanding northward, and of the glamorous Dakota. The book also weaves in Nellie Bly's undercover stint in a madhouse, which was both fascinating and upsetting.
If you don't know the Dakota, it's the apartment building where John Lennon lived and where he was murdered; scores of other celebrities have lived there.
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