It may be the weekend, but #read99women is going strong seven days a week! Today’s guest is Michelle Gable, New York Times bestselling author of A PARIS APARTMENT, I'LL SEE YOU IN PARIS, THE BOOK OF SUMMER, and THE SUMMER I MET JACK.

Michelle grew up in San Diego and attended The College of William & Mary, where she majored in accounting, as most aspiring writers do. After a twenty-year career in finance, Michelle now writes full-time. She lives in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, with her husband, two daughters, and what is quickly becoming a menagerie: one cat, one bunny, and a lab/jindo mix recently rescued from the dog meat trade in Thailand.

Michelle can be reached at www.michellegable.com or on Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest at @MGableWriter.

Michelle’s recommendation is THE FIVE by Hallie Rubenhold, one of 2019’s most exciting nonfiction books — it’s the first full-length biography of Jack the Ripper’s five victims, painstakingly re-creating their stories from extensive research and shining a spotlight on the societal forces that drove these women to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Says Michelle, “The narrative has been that Jack the Ripper killed prostitutes, but this is an oversimplification, if not outright mistruth. His victims were those on the margins of society, women who it was simply easier to dismiss as ’prostitutes’ than look at them with any level of humanity.” Hallie Rubenhold tells their story “with great storytelling prowess and tremendous empathy.”

Read Michelle’s full review on Goodreads here.