In the Shadow of Gotham
By Stefanie Pintoff
(Minotaur Books, Paperback, 9780312628123, 400pp.)
Publication Date: May 11, 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Categories: Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective - Historical
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Stefanie Pintoff’s acclaimed and award-winning debut is the taut historical tale of Detective Simon Ziele, a man who lost his fiancée in the 1904 General 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 brutally 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 someone mimicking him? Ziele must discover the truth in this story of a haunted man on the trail of a killer while on the run from his own demons.
Stefanie Pintoff, the acclaimed winner of the first Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition and an Edgar Award nominee, is also a graduate of Columbia University Law School and has a Ph.D. in literature from New York University. She lives with her husband and daughter in New York City and Westchester County, New York.
“Will remind many of Caleb Carr at his best.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The author has inevitably been compared to Caleb Carr. . . . She does an outstanding job of blending historical detail with engaging characters and a suspenseful plot.”
—The Denver Post
“Pintoff excavates a rich vein of early criminology. . . . She also delivers a gripping detective story.”
—Booklist
“Nicely contrasts academic theorizing with the reality of police detection set against the backdrop of a vividly depicted turn-of-the-century Gotham. Recommend to readers who enjoy historicals of this period, such as Caleb Carr’s The Alienist and Ann Stamos’s Bitter Tide.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
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