Brooklyn Secrets An Erica Donato Mystery - Erica Donato Mysteries Author:Triss Stein Erica Donato, Brooklyn girl, urban history grad student and single mom, is researching the days when Brownsville was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. That was in the 1930s, but she quickly learns that even in rapidly changing Brooklyn, Brownsville hasn?t changed much. It is still poor, it is still t... more »ough and it still breeds fighters and gangs. Doing field research, she stops in at the landmark local library and meets Savanna, a young woman who is the pride of her mother and her bosses, headed for an elite college and a future. A few days later, she is found beaten and left for dead, and her mother is everywhere, insisting someone knows about it. After a massive, angry demonstration, a young girl friend of Savanna is found dead too. Is there a connection? Did perfect Savanna have a few secrets? Did Erica know her mother, years ago? As the same time, Erica is still looking at crime in the old days, and has located a few women who are happy to share stories and memories. Childhood friends, they disagree on much, and they have secrets too, kept for a lifetime. And as Erica can?t resist looking much deeper than her work requires, she keeps encountering an apparent derelict, a white man hanging out in the ghetto. Are all these mysteries connected somehow? Can Erica find the links? Or are they merely echoes, in a place where present tragedies keep repeating the past?« less