Murder in Little Italy
A Gaslight Mystery #8
Berkley Pub Group
June 6, 2006
ISBN-13: 042520989X
Available in: Hardcover
A deadly delivery arrives with the eighth novel in the bestselling, Edgar®-nominated Gaslight series.
When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds the young woman dead. The family insists that the death was from complications of childbirth. Sarah thinks not. Neither does the woman's own mother, an Irishwoman who spreads the story that the girl was murdered by her Italian in-laws, the Ruoccosan accusation that inflames tensions between the two immigrant groups. Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy is going to need Sarah's help to unravel the secrets of these troubled families, bring a killer to justiceand restore order to the volatile community.
Victoria Thompson is the Edgar-Award nominated author of the Gaslight mystery series and numerous historical novels. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.