A Promise of Ruin
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DAPHNE DU MAURIER AWARD NOMINEE
“A riveting period puzzler, filled with history, mystery, and romance.” —Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series
Book 2 in the enthralling Dr. Genevieve Summerford mystery series.
As Dr. Genevieve Summerford watches from the docks, the body of a young Italian woman is pulled from the East River, dampening the city's Independence Day festivities. Although the police suspect random violence, when Genevieve is asked to help find another young Italian woman who's gone missing, she wonders if something more sinister might be afoot.
Desperate to find the missing woman before she too meets a grisly end, Genevieve must rely on all of her skills as a psychiatrist—both to understand the mind of a cunning predator, and to help the victims he's left behind. But none of her training can prepare her for what happens when she herself is captured, bringing the case much closer to home than she'd ever anticipated.
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Set in Manhattan in 1907, Overholt's engrossing sequel to A Deadly Affection finds psychiatrist Genevieve Summerford watching a July 4th boat race when the body of a young woman is pulled from the East River. The victim is later identified as Lucia Siavo, an immigrant from Naples who planned to join her fianc in America. By chance, Genevieve learns that a woman with a similar background, Teresa Casoria, recently disappeared just after arriving on U.S. soil. Certain that it can't be coincidence, she hopes that Teresa can still be saved. A police unit dedicated to crimes within the Italian community and the residents of a refuge for fallen women point her toward Italian criminal networks. Meanwhile, Genevieve's romance with Simon Shaw, once her affluent family's stablehand but now a Tammany district captain, remains fraught. Though Genevieve's professional expertise is less central in this installment, Overholt delivers satisfying plot twists, and her themes of immigration-fueled tensions and crimes against women are well researched and timely.)