Victoria Thompson, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-425-21531-9
Edgar-finalist Thompson’s eye-opening ninth Gaslight mystery (after 2006’s Murder in Little Italy) examines the culture clash in early 20th-century New York City between Chinese and Irish immigrants, whose poverty prompted many of them...
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Victoria Thompson, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-425-22775-6
Thompson's 11th gaslight mystery to feature midwife Sarah Brandt (after 2008's Murder on Bank Street
) fails to bring to life late 19th-century New York City as well as, say, Caleb Carr does in his period fiction, but series fans should be
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Victoria Thompson, Author Berkley Prime Crime 24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-23437-2
In Thompson’s fine 12th mystery set in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City (after 2009’s Murder on Waverly Place), Det. Sgt. Frank Malloy investigates the murder of Nehemiah Wooten, who was bludgeoned with a loving cup Wooten won for sculling at...
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Victoria Thompson, Author Berkley Prime Crime $7.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-425-16896-7
Sprinkled with fascinating details of turn-of-the-century New York City, Thompson's old-fashioned mystery takes the reader from the mansions of Fifth Avenue to the flophouses of the Lower East Side. Sarah Brandt is a midwife who has been estranged...
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Victoria Thompson, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-19610-6
Set in late 19th-century New York, Victoria Thompson's cleverly plotted Murder on Marble Row: A Gaslight Mystery, the sixth in the series (Murder on Astor Place, etc.), provides abundant fair play and plenty of convincing period detail. At the...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-24115-8
Thompson's otherwise solid 13th whodunit set at the end of the 19th century in New York City (after 2010's Murder on Lexington Avenue) lags a bit until the appearance of a corpse. Sarah Brandt, an heiress who works by choice as a midwife, gets an...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-24741-9
At the outset of Thompson’s fine 14th mystery set in late 19th-century New York City (after 2011’s Murder on Sisters Row), NYPD Det. Sgt. Frank Malloy receives a summons to Manhattan’s exclusive Knickerbocker Club, where member Chilton Devries has...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26041-8
Before a resolution that will strike many as too pat, Thompson injects both suspense and pathos into her 15th mystery set in late-19th-century New York City (after 2012’s Murder on Fifth Avenue). Widowed midwife Sarah Brandt has cause for alarm....
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26042-5
Thompson convincingly portrays late-19th-century New York City in her 16th Gaslight mystery, but she has put her male lead, NYPD Det. Sgt. Frank Malloy, into an awkward spot. Toward the end of the previous entry, 2013’s Murder in Chelsea, Malloy...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26047-0
In Edgar-finalist Thompson’s solid 17th Gaslight mystery set in New York City in the late 1890s, Frank Malloy, who was fired from the NYPD in 2014’s Murder on Murray Hill after he inherited a fortune, transitions easily into work as a private eye....
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-4252-7897-0
Characters who previously played supporting roles take center stage in Thompson’s workmanlike 18th mystery set in gaslight-era New York City (after 2015’s Murder on Amsterdam Avenue). With series leads Frank and Sarah Malloy away on their honeymoon,
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-101-98711-7
Edgar-finalist Thompson’s entertaining 20th mystery set in gaslight-era New York City (after 2016’s Murder in Morningside Heights) finds private detective Frank Malloy looking for a missing newsie, one of the street urchins that hawk papers. Known...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-58657-6
Set in 1917, this winning series launch from Thompson (Murder in the Bowery and 19 other Gaslight mysteries) introduces quick-witted and audacious con artist Elizabeth Miles. In Washington, D.C., Elizabeth and her brother, Jake, are running a scam...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-58660-6
At the start of Edgar-finalist Thompson’s solid 21st mystery set in gaslight-era New York City (after 2017’s Murder in the Bowery), Sarah Brandt and her PI husband, Frank Malloy, are finalizing the adoption of Catherine, a child Sarah rescued and...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-49161-9
Set in the period just before women won the right to vote in the U.S., Thompson’s solid sequel to 2017’s City of Lies pits lovable Elizabeth Miles, a grifter turned suffragist, and her attorney fiancé, Gideon Bates, against criminals who have stolen
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-58663-7
The strangling death of priggish dairy owner Clarence Pritchard, found on the grounds of Manhattan’s Trinity Church on New Year’s Day 1900, drives Thompson’s discursive 22nd Gaslight mystery (after 2018’s Murder on Union Square). Pritchard’s bereft...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0565-2
Thompson’s fascinating third Counterfeit Lady novel (after 2018’s City of Secrets) plays out against a backdrop of paranoia unleashed by WWI and the devastating onset of the 1918 flu pandemic. Thomas Preston, a soldier about to embark for France,...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0574-4
In Edgar finalist Thompson’s cleverly plotted 23rd whodunit set in early 20th-century New York City (after 2019’s Murder on Trinity Place), PI Frank Malloy and his partner, Gino Donatelli, are approached by Donatelli’s sister-in-law, Teo, who’s...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-5931-9750-9
Set in post-WWI New York City, Thompson’s cleverly plotted fourth Counterfeit Lady novel (after 2019’s City of Scoundrels) finds Elizabeth Miles, an endearingly charismatic con artist, about to marry lawyer Gideon Bates, but she’s fearful that news...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0577-5
Set in 1900, Edgar finalist Thompson’s subpar 24th Gaslight mystery (after 2020’s Murder on Pleasant Avenue) finds midwife Sarah Malloy attending to Jocelyn Robinson, who’s soon to give birth after having been raped by Hayden Norcross, a Wall Street
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-19753-0
Set in post-WWI New York City, Thompson’s subpar fifth Counterfeit Lady mystery featuring grifter turned suffragist Elizabeth Miles (after City of Schemes) pits newly married Elizabeth, now Mrs. Gideon Bates, against a savvy crook. The crook, posing
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-33706-6
It’s 1900 in Thompson’s solid 25th Gaslight mystery (after 2021’s Murder on Wall Street), and Ethel Bing, who wants to divorce her husband, Alvin, part-owner of an electric automobile manufacturer, asks New York City private eye Frank Malloy to get...
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-44057-5
Set in 1919, Thompson’s entertaining sixth Counterfeit Lady mystery (after 2021’s City of Shadows) opens with New York City lawyer Gideon Bates agreeing to attend a horse race at Belmont Park at the invitation of a client, Sebastian Nolan, the owner
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-33710-3
In Thompson’s strong 26th Gaslight mystery set in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City (after 2022’s Murder on Madison Square), investment banker Hugh Breedlove consults Frank Malloy, an ex-cop who still works as a PI despite coming into a fortune,
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Victoria Thompson. Berkley, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593440-60-5
The seventh entry in Thompson’s Counterfeit Lady historical crime series (following 2022’s City of Fortune) is the best yet. In 1920, antihero Elizabeth Bates—an accomplished con artist who learned the tricks of the trade from her father—has devoted
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