Brooklyn Bones (Erica Donato Mysteries)

Triss Stein

ISBN 10: 1470836769 ISBN 13: 9781470836764

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2013

Synopsis

Unburying history can have unintended consequences.

In Brooklyn Bones, a crime of the past comes much too close to home when Erica Donato's teenage daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope home. Erica -- a young widow, overage history PhD candidate, and product of blue-collar Brooklyn -- is drawn into the mystery when she learns that the skeleton is of an unknown teenage girl and that it was hidden there within living memory. Erica and Chris are both touched and disturbed by the mysterious tragedy in their own home.

With her daughter's dangerous curiosity and her own work at a local history museum, Erica follows leads about the mysterious skeleton right back to her own neighborhood in its edgy, pregentrification days, the period when the age of Aquarius was turning dark. Now she finds that a cranky retired reporter wants to share old files, the charming widow of a slumlord has some surprises for her, and the crazy old lady who hangs around her street keeps trying to tell her something. Finally, there are some people -- including ones she is close to -- who know the whole story and will stop at nothing to make sure it stays buried forever.

About this title

About the Author:

TRISS STEIN is a small-town girl who has spent most of her adult life living and working in New York City. A member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, she is the author of three mystery novels. She lives in Brooklyn.

From Booklist:

Historian and PhD candidate Erica Donato investigates at her teenage daughter Chris’ insistence when a body is found in the wall of her Brooklyn fixer-upper during renovation. Both Chris and Erica are touched by the death of the young woman, and they feel the need to find out who she was and what happened to her. With Chris safely away at camp, Erica combines her sleuthing with a freelance job for a handsome, suave client, all the while continuing to prepare for an exhibit on Brooklyn’s past for the local history museum. Erica enlists the help of a retired, curmudgeonly reporter, who wrote of her Brooklyn neighborhood in the 1960s, and when her research begins to uncover secrets long hidden, she is threatened, leading to the possible loss of someone near to her. Framed with the details of historical research and Brooklyn of the 1960s, this mystery also weaves in a close but volatile mother-daughter relationship that is reminiscent of Joan Hess’ Claire Malloy series, although Stein’s novel is not as humorous. --Sue OBrien

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1470836769
• ISBN 13: 9781470836764
• Binding: Audio CD