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Author : Triss Stein
Release : 2017-08
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brooklyn Wars: An Erica Donato Mystery by : Triss Stein
Download or read book Brooklyn Wars: An Erica Donato Mystery written by Triss Stein. This book was released on 2017-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Triss Stein
Release : 2015
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 104/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brooklyn Secrets by : Triss Stein
Download or read book Brooklyn Secrets written by Triss Stein. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erica Donato is researching the 1930s when Brownsville, New York, was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. Two young women are found murdered. One of them, Savanna, had helped Erica at the local library. Erica digs deeper than necessary into her research and encounters an apparent derelict white man, a vengeful rejected girlfriend, the role of boxing as a way out of poverty, and fading evidence of long-ago crimes.
Author : Triss Stein
Release : 2017-08-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 208/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brooklyn Wars by : Triss Stein
Download or read book Brooklyn Wars written by Triss Stein. This book was released on 2017-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stein's sure hand weaves history and mystery together for a colorful tale of love, loss, greed, and murder." —Publishers Weekly From the earliest days of the Republic until the administration of LBJ, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was, proudly, both an arsenal of democracy, in FDR's words, and the creator of 70,000 local jobs. In time it became best known as the scary place New Yorkers had to locate to rescue their impounded cars. And then it came back to life, but not without a war. A public meeting becomes a battleground over plans to redevelop the once-proud Brooklyn Navy Yard. Local residents clamor for their own agenda in redeveloping 300 acres overlooking a sparkling downtown Manhattan, while business and real estate experts argue and city officials cower. Erica Donato, still writing her PhD dissertation about changes in city neighborhoods, witnesses the shocking murder of a power-broker that night on the Yard's condemned Admirals' Row. Erica uncovers the dead man's complicated history with the Yard, with his road to wealth and a high-flyer lifestyle, and with his wives and mistresses. When her daughter, Chris, visits her father's relatives for a family history project, Erica goes along, and learns that the Donato clan was involved in the Navy Yard's glory days and its slow, politics-ridden death. The story of Aunt Philomena, tall and blond, one of the proud Brooklyn girls who built ships in the Yard during World War II, captivates her. After the U.S. victory these women were told to give their jobs back to the men coming home. Philomena, so strong, so happy, mysteriously faded away and died young. Under pressure to drop her chapter on the Naval Yard and finish her PhD dissertation on a final deadline, as well as from the police to step aside for safety, Erica once again discovers "what's past is prologue" to murder...and to her life.
Author : Triss Stein
Release : 2014
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 193/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brooklyn Graves by : Triss Stein
Download or read book Brooklyn Graves written by Triss Stein. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutally murdered man whom no one believed had an enemy, turns local historians on their heads as century-old letters found written to him by a woman affilated with Tiffany surface; the mausoleum at Green-Wood Cemetery is temporarily off-limits, and Erica Donato, history graduate assigned to catalog the letters in the museum where she's employed, all reveal an unknown and unexpected past.
Author : Triss Stein
Release : 2015-12-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 136/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brooklyn Secrets by : Triss Stein
Download or read book Brooklyn Secrets written by Triss Stein. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brooklyn's rich history comes to life in Stein's wonderful descriptions, and Erica is an engaging tour guide."—Booklist 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, a young woman who is the pride of her mother and her bosses, and headed for an elite college and a future. A few days later, Savanna is found beaten and left for dead. Her anguished mother is everywhere, insisting someone knows something. After a massive, angry demonstration, a young girlfriend of Savanna's is found dead, too. Is there a connection? Did perfect Savanna have a few secrets? Erica's curious. But she's focused on the 1930s and has located a few women who are happy to share memories. Two are childhood friends who disagree on much but guard secrets, too—ones kept for a lifetime. Never one to resist looking deeper than her research requires, Erica keeps encountering an apparent derelict white man, a vengeful rejected girlfriend, the role of boxing as a way out of poverty, and fading evidence of long-ago crimes.
