Triss Stein
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A brutally murdered family man without an enemy in the world. A box full of charming letters home, written a century ago by an unknown female worker at the famed Tiffany studios. Historic Green-Wood cemetery, where a decrepit mausoleum with stunning stained glass windows is now off limits. Suddenly, all of this is part of Erica Donato’s life.
Erica is a youngish single mother of a teen, an oldish history grad student, and the lowest person on...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In Brooklyn Bones, a crime of the past comes much too close to home when Erica Donato’s teenage daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope home. Erica—a young widow, over-age history Ph.D candidate, mother of a teenager, product of blue-collar Brooklyn—is drawn into the mystery when she learns this was an unknown teenage girl, hidden there within living memory. She and her daughter are both touched and disturbed...
Author
Series
Erica Donato mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn native and young widow Erica Donato wants to focus on her PhD research. But when her teenage daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope, Brooklyn, home, she and her daughter are both touched and disturbed by the mysterious tragedy. Are the remains more recent than they at first appear?
Chris' dangerous curiosity and Erica's work at a local history museum lead her right back to her neighborhood in its edgy,...
Author
Series
Erica Donato mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Erica Donato-Brooklyn girl, urban history grad student, and single mom-is researching the 1930s when Brownsville was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder, Inc. She quickly learns that even in rapidly changing Brooklyn, Brownsville remains much as it was. It is still poor, it is still tough, and it still breeds fighters and gangs. Doing field research, Erica stops in at the landmark local library and meets Savanna,...