Walter Satterthwait: New York Nocturne (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Lizzie Borden and Amanda Burton reunite to solve a grisly murder among the elite circles of Prohibition-era New York in this "assured and witty" mystery (Publishers Weekly).

Sixteen-year-old Amanda is spending the summer with her suave and easygoing uncle John at the Dakota Apartments, opposite the green sprawl of New York's Central Park. When John isn't doing something mysterious with stocks and bonds, he and Amanda enjoy the very best the Roaring Twenties have to offer. However, in a single brutal night, everything changes. Suddenly, Amanda is alone, far from home, and fighting for her life in a city that has abandoned her.

Fortunately, there's one person Amanda can trust: Miss Lizzie Borden. Together, they'll manage to work out a twisted path through the narrow streets of nighttime New York toward what might be survival.

Praise for Miss Lizzie
"An entertaining amalgam of memoir-cum-murder mystery that rehabilitates (however improbably) the reputation of a woman who has become an enduring legend." -- Publishers Weekly
"An entertaining narrative that mixes 1921 New England ambience, budding romance, bareknuckle fisticuffs and a suitably spooky finale." -- The Boston Globe

Walter Satterthwait is a bestselling author of mysteries and historical fiction. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues (1979). After his second thriller, The Aegean Affair (1982), Satterthwait created his best-known character, Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. He also writes crime fiction starring historical figures, including Miss Lizzie (1989), a novel about Lizzie Borden, and Wilde West (1991), a western mystery starring Oscar Wilde. New York Nocturne (2016) is his most recent novel.

Cover design by Michael Vrana

Walter Satterthwait: New York Nocturne. The Return of Miss Lizzie. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504028127 (June, 2016), 325 p., $14.99.