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It is November of 1905...
Detective Simon Ziele loses his fiancée in the wreck of the General Slocum steamship disaster and shortly thereafter heads to Westchester County to escape the violence of the city. But just a few months into his tenure, he catches the worst homicide of his career: a young woman is brutally murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of a winter afternoon.
A day's investigating leads him to Columbia University's noted criminologist, Alistair Sinclair, and one of his subjects, Michael Fromley, who has a history of violent behavior and brutal fantasies. But what would lead him to target Sarah Wingate, a notable mathematics grad student at Columbia? Is it really Michael behind the murder, or is someone else copying his signatures? This is what Simon Ziele must discover, with the help of the brilliant but self-interested Alistair Sinclair, before the killer strikes again.
Nominated for an Anthony Award and Agatha Award for Best First Novel, a Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel, a Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Mystery of 2009 by Romantic Times, made the Deadly Pleasures list of Best Mystery/Crime Novels of 2009 in the category "Best First Novel," and made #10 on the San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller List for July of 2009.