Murder on Fifth Avenue
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Average rating3.7
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Average rating3.7
From the tenements to the town houses of nineteenth-century New York, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy never waiver in their mission to aid the innocent and apprehend the guilty. Now, the latest novel in the Edgar®-nominated series finds Sarah and Malloy investigating the murder of a Knickerbocker club member who was made to pay his dues… Sarah Brandt’s family is one of the oldest in New York City, and her father, Felix Decker, takes his position in society very seriously. He still refuses to resign himself to his daughter being involved with an Irish Catholic police detective. But when a member of his private club—the very exclusive Knickerbocker—is murdered, Decker forms an uneasy alliance with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to solve the crime as discreetly as possible. Malloy soon discovers that despite his social standing, the deceased—Chilton Devries—was no gentleman. In fact, he’s left behind his own unofficial club of sorts, populated by everyone who despised him. As he and Sarah sort through the suspects, it becomes clear to her that her father is evaluating more than the detective’s investigative abilities, and that, on a personal level, there is much more at stake for Malloy than discovering who revoked Devries’ membership—permanently.
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I have a pet peeve in murder mysteries and that's when all they do is talk, and even have a conversation with someone else about the conversation they just had... And I tend to gloss over romantic stuff because I'm not that interested.
But here, they have conversations about conversations and I liked it, and the best part of these books is the slow burn romance, what the heck?
3,5 rounding up.
Series
17 primary booksGaslight Mystery is a 17-book series with 17 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Victoria Thompson and Victoria Thompson.
