SummaryThe ninth in the EdgarŽ Award-nominated series featuring
midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Malloy in
turn-of-the-century New York City.
Sarah Brandt has made her uneasy way to Chinatown to deliver
a baby. There she meets a group of Irish women who,
completely alone at Ellis Island, married Chinese men in the
same predicament. But even as a new century dawns, New
Yorkers still cling to their own kind, scorning children of
mixed races.
When the new mother's half-Chinese, half-Irish niece goes
missing, Sarah knows that alerting the police will
accomplish nothing, and seeks the one person she can turn
to—Detective Sergeant Malloy.
And when the missing girl is found dead in a Chinatown
alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects in her
murder—from both sides of Canal Street.
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