In the Shadow of Gotham - Hardcover

Stefanie Pintoff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312544901 ISBN 13: 9780312544904

Publisher: Minotaur Books,US, 2009

Synopsis

Minotaur and the MWA's inaugural competition winner is an atmospheric, taut, and truly original historical mystery with an engaging main character and a gorgeously rendered setting: turn-of-the-century New York. Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancee in the wreck of the General Slocum and shortly thereafter headed to Westchester County to escape the violence of the city. But just a few months into his tenure, he catches the worst homicide of his career: a young woman is brutally murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of a winter afternoon. A day's investigating leads him to Columbia University's noted criminologist, Alistair Sinclair, and one of his subjects, Michael Fromley, who has a history of violent behaviour and brutal fantasies. But what would lead him to target Sarah Wingate, a notable mathematics grad student at Columbia? Is it really Michael behind the murder, or is someone else copying his signatures? This is what Simon Ziele must discover, with the help of the brilliant but self-interested Alistair Sinclair, before the killer strikes again.

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Review:

Advance Praise for "In the Shadow of Gotham
""Congratulations to Stefanie Pintoff on this outstanding debut novel! An appealing character, terrific suspense, and skillful interweaving of historical detail make "In the Shadow of Gotham" a winner."
--Marcia Muller, author of "Burn Out"

About the Author:

Stefanie Pintoff is the author of "A Curtain Falls" and "Secret of the White Rose." "In the Shadow of Gotham" is the winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the Washington Irving Book Prize, and she has earned nominations for the Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards. She is also a graduate of Columbia University Law School and has a Ph.D. in literature from New York University. Now a full-time writer, she lives with her husband and daughter on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books,US
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312544901
• ISBN 13: 9780312544904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368