It's 1924 Brooklyn, and Celia and Ed Cooney embark on a crime spree. As the pair's robberies ‎become more audacious and the police bungle their attempts to nab them, the papers have a ‎heyday with the police department's ineptitude. Increasingly humiliated, the police ‎commissioner gives the order to shoot to kill. Will Celia and Ed elude the deadly dragnet of ‎Brooklyn's men in blue?‎

‎"Gun Girl and the Tall Guy is a gripping historical novel based on the true story of Celia and Ed ‎Cooney. Through vivid, evocative prose and a cinematic storytelling style, Maryka Biaggio ‎captures the grit and tension of 1920s Brooklyn, immersing readers in a world where love and ‎crime collide."‎
‎~ Elizabeth Mahon, author of Scandalous Women and Pretty Evil New York