Murder in Murray Hill - 16 (First edition.)

When facing injustice, the residents of nineteenth-century New York Citys tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights.

Now, as the Edgar and Agatha Awardnominated series continues, the two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent womenA Gaslight MysteryFrank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens his position within his department.

While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and his fortune under wraps, hes assigned to a new casefinding a missing young woman for her worried father, Henry Livingston.It seems the girl had been responding to lonely hearts ads in the paper for months before she disappeared.

Her father thinks that shes eloped with a deceptive stranger, but Malloy fears the worst, knowing that the grifters who place such ads often do much more than simply abscond with their victims.

But as Sarah and Malloy delve deeper into a twisted plot targeting the citys single women, its their partnershipboth professional and privatethat winds up in the greatest peril