Brooklyn on Fire
A Mary Handley Mystery
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- USD 7.99
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- USD 7.99
Publisher Description
Brooklyn’s most witty and daring detective risks everything to solve a dangerous triple-murder case
After closing a case with the Brooklyn Police Department, Mary Handley is determined to become an official detective in her own right. And when Emily Worsham shows up at her new office— convinced her uncle John Worsham was murdered and desperate for answers—Mary’s second assignment begins.
As she investigates the curious circumstances surrounding John’s death, Mary soon finds herself entangled in a high-stakes family scandal, a series of interconnected murders, political corruption, untrustworthy sources, and an unexpected romance with a central member of New York's elite.
Featuring historic figures like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and the Vanderbilt family, Brooklyn on Fire takes Mary on a wild journey from New York City to North Carolina to uncover not only the truth of one man's death, but to unravel the mystery in three murders – with links tied perilously close to her own personal world.
Don’t miss any of Lawrence H. Levy’s enchanting Mary Handley mysteries:
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Set in 1890, Levy's engaging second Mary Handley mystery (after 2015's Second Street Station) finds the neophyte detective working as a salesclerk at a Brooklyn bookstore, where an elegant Southern woman, Emily Worsham, seeks her out. Emily wants Mary to try to prove that John Worsham, her late uncle who died in 1870, was murdered. Soon drawn into the world of high society, Mary asks the snobbish Arabella Huntington, John's widow, for permission to exhume her first husband's body. Arabella is incensed, but her son, Archer, wants to know the truth about his father's death. Wealthy George Vanderbilt, who followed Mary's previous case in the papers, offers his assistance. To complicate matters, several seemingly unrelated murders point to Mary's policeman brother, Sean Handley, as a suspect. Political machinations surrounding the eventual consolidation of Brooklyn and New York City lend additional interest to this charming historical.
