In the Shadow of Gotham
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- ISBN13: 9780312628123
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Stefanie Pintoff’s acclaimed and award-winning debut is the taut past tale of Detective Simon Ziele, a man who lost his fiancée in the 1904 All-purpose Slocum ferry disaster and thereafter flees New York City for Dobson, New York, to escape the memories of her death. But months into his tenure, he catches the worst homicide of his career: a young woman cruelly murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of the afternoon. His investigation quickly takes him to Columbia University criminologist Alistair Sinclair and one of his patients. But what could lead this Michael Fromley, with his history of violent behavior, to target such a proper young lady? Is Michael really behind the murder or is a name mimicking him? Ziele must learn the truth in this tale of a haunted man on the trail of a killer while on the run from his own demons.
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I loved this book and can’t wait for the next in the series. If you like past fiction mixed with a murder mystery you will like this one.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Reading this book was a painful experience: derivative cardboard characters and terrible writing. It is appalling that this book is being promoted as an award winner. If you read the fine print you’ll find that the award itself (Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel) is new, and made to promote this sub-standard book through giving it a fake sense of “legitimacy”. One review states it’s “Like the best of Caleb Carr”. Please. This book seems more akin to a teenage Harlequin romance lacking any passion, plot, or sex. GREAT marketing, AWFUL book. The leader supposedly has a law degree and Ph.D. in literature from NYU, but after reading this novel I judge I’d like to see transcripts and diplomas; the book is a scam and makes suspicion about these claims.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was disappointed in this book. It had been heralded as the next “The Alienist” by Caleb Carr. But, I feel that it fell fleeting by a mile. It takes place over a week in 1905. The main murder takes place north of NYC on the Hudson River (Dobson). In addition to a policeman there is the involvement of a Criminal Research lab at Columbia.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Although well written in the description and characterization, the plot needed more development. As soon as a surly unlikeable character entered the scene it was simple to guess he was the one. The plot did have nice twists and turns throughout with lots of potential to be a fantastic tale. But, the ending was predictable since the guilty party was unintentionally revealed by the leader early on and this ruined the tale.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I’m only about 15 pages into this book, but I already want to return it to the bookstore, award winner or not.
Why write a past mystery if you can’t be bothered with right historic detail? Describing a name as “blue collar” in 1904? No. The “Lower East Side” in 1904? Absolutely not. Why not, oh, really look up and find out what the Lower East Side was called in 1904? A house would not be described as “Victorian” in 1904, either.
Things like this, which should have been corrected by the leader or editors, ruin my enjoyment of a book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5