Philomena βMannyβ Manfreda is a crusading attorney for the
disenfranchised. Five years out of law school, with an
apartment not much bigger than one of her beloved Prada
shoe boxes and a burgeoning reputation as one of the
cityβs fiercest litigators, Manny is an unabashed
shopaholic who changes her hair color weekly, carries her
poodle, Mycroft, everywhere, and whose idea of therapy is
the preparation of an eight-course Italian meal.
Dr. Jake Rosen is the deputy chief medical examiner of New
York City, a confirmed workaholic and bachelor who lives
alone in an oversized nineteenth-century Manhattan
brownstone littered with morbid memorabilia and forensic
artifacts, and who divides his life between the autopsy
table and Chinese takeout.
When a body is unearthed beneath the construction site of
a mall near the Catskill Mountains, Jake is called to the
scene by his elderly mentor, Dr. Pete Harrigan, to examine
the bones. Further investigation reveals a gruesome
discovery: additional skeletal remains with striking
abnormalities. After one of the victims is identified, the
family of the deceased retains Manny to represent them,
and, with Jake, she is swept into a terrifying vortex of
murder and deceit, where a mounting body count hides both
a shocking cover-up and a devastating love story.
A chilling debut that introduces a major new voice in
crime fiction.
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