In this Gaslight Mystery from the
national bestselling author
of MURDER IN MURRAY HILL, midwife Sarah Brandt and
Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy
investigate foul play 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 Fairfax, the son of
family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering
from a mysterious disease. It
is a tragic and all too common story—or so it seems.
Charles’s father asks to speak
with Sarah privately. He believes his son was poisoned
and would like Sarah and
Frank to look into the matter with the utmost discretion.
Putting their own personal affairs on hold, 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 War
Between the States, they also
discover that they are in the company of a very present
danger…