From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. This satisfying nineteenth entry in a perennially best-selling historical mystery series (following Wild Irish Rose, 2022) moves the characters ahead to 1907 and is the second to be coauthored by Bowen's daughter, Clare Broyles. When Big Bill McKenzie, Daniel's new boss, who is running for mayor, is found dead in a locked room, Molly finds it's up to her to sort it out. The usually indomitable Molly is unsettled by the new house, intimidated by the servants, and uncomfortable in her new role in society as a politician's wife. Worse yet, they will be moving to an upscale residence on Fifth Avenue. Her life has held many surprises, but nothing like the one Daniel has for her when he announces he is giving up his captain's position with the NYPD to run for sheriff of New York City on the Tammany Hall ticket. Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy living in Greenwich Village with her policeman husband Daniel, along with their toddler son and teenage ward.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |