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  • Published: 5 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698183759
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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Murder On Amsterdam Avenue





In this mystery From the national bestselling author of Murder on Trinity Place, midwife Sarah Brandt and former police detective Frank Malloy investigate a murder in the secretive, high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City...
 
In the midst of Sarah and Frank’s wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Oakes, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease. But Charles’s father believes his son was poisoned, and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the utmost discretion. 
 
Putting off their own personal affairs, Sarah and Frank soon learn that not everyone wants to know more about Charles’s death, particularly if he was murdered. As they unravel secrets that reach back to the Civil War, they also discover that they are in the company of a very present danger...

  • Published: 5 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9780698183759
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
Categories:

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Praise for Murder On Amsterdam Avenue

Praise for the Edgar® and Agatha awardnominated Gaslight Mysteries

"Tantalizing."--Catherine Coulter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Backfire

"Victoria Thompson has a knack for putting the reader inside her characters' heads and...[brings] the setting vividly to life."--Kate Kingsbury, author of A Bicycle Built for Murder

"Victoria Thompson shines...Anne Perry and Caleb Carr fans, rejoice!"--Tamar Myers, national bestselling author of The Witch Doctor's Wife

"Fast-paced...Another Victorian page-turner!"--Robin Paige, national bestselling author of Death on the Lizard

"A fascinating window into a bygone era."--Kirkus Reviews

"Vividly re-creates the gaslit world of old New York."--Publishers Weekly

"Gangs of New York, eat your heart out--this book is the real thing."--Mystery Scene

"Enthralling...Fascinating characters with a story to tell."--Fresh Fiction