Murder on Amsterdam Avenue

Name: Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Victoria Thompson
ISBN: 9781490661971

Author: Victoria Thompson

Series: Gaslight Mysteries #17

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/05/2015

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

In this Gaslight Mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City. In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease. It is a tragic and all too common story-or so it seems. Charles's father asks to speak with Sarah privately. He believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the utmost discretion. Putting their own personal affairs on hold, Sarah and Frank soon learn that not everyone wants to know more about Charles's death, particularly if he was murdered. As they unravel secrets that reach back to the War Between the States, they also discover that they are in the company of a very present danger.

About Victoria Thompson

Edgar Award-nominated author Victoria Thompson writes the Gaslight Mystery series, set in turn-of-the-century New York City and featuring midwife Sarah Brandt. She also contributed to the award-winning writing textbook Many Genres, One Craft. A popular speaker, Victoria teaches in the Seton Hill University master's program in writing popular fiction. She lives in central Pennsylvania with her husband and a very spoiled little dog.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonetta on May 04, 2019

Sarah Brandt accompanies her mother on a condolence call to a family friend whose son died inexplicably after being ill for only a few days. The father, Gerald Oakes, takes them aside and asks Sarah if she’ll arrange to have Frank meet with him as he fears his son may have been poisoned. Frank does......more

Goodreads review by Mei on January 27, 2021

Another great book! I just don't know where the autor gets her ideas - every book in this series considers a different type of situation and gives me an insight of how different types of people were treated in this period. Here we have both the problems black people and Southerners had! The abolition......more

Goodreads review by Gretchen on May 06, 2015

Delightful and satisfying! I'm very glad to know that this will not be the last of the Gaslight mysteries and I'm a bit excited to find out more about Maeve and Gino in the next book. I do have to say I like that the romance is a secondary plot and while it's nice to have the characters grow and chan......more

Goodreads review by Robin on May 10, 2019

When a family friend dies suddenly, Sarah Brandt and her mother make a bereavement call. It seems Charles Oakes suddenly took ill. He died a few days later. Charles' father thinks there may have been foul play and asks Sarah if she and her fiancée, Frank Malloy, would investigate. They discover that......more