Description
In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val DeVere learns a third young woman's strangled body has been found nearby in New York's Central Park. The victim could be someone like Val's late mother-or her-for the Valentine Mackle DeVere is one generation from the Irish immigrants who now risk their lives toiling in the city that promised a better life.
Heartsick, Val joins her well-connected husband, Roddy (Roderick Windham DeVere), to press the mayor for action, but scandal-ridden city hall finds little time for the case of "disposable" young women who frequent the park at night.
A maverick police detective urges the DeVeres to help him find the killer, but his "evidence" ensnares a family friend and could send an innocent man to death row. The couple feel on trial when the detective baits them with Roddy's Old New York heritage: "Tell me this, Mr. DeVere...how many more murders before you and Mrs. DeVere cooperate to save the park your forefathers built?"
Author: Cecelia Tichi
Publisher: Cecelia Tichi
Published: 01/01/2022
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9781685248154
ISBN10: 1685248152
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | Gilded Age