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Birth, death and everything in between - midwife Sarah Brandt has seen it all. In the tenaments of New York, Sarah helps out where she can. Now in the latest of the Edgar Award nominated novels, she ventures to an exotic land, less than a mile away...
In Chinatown to deliver a baby, Sarah meets a group of women she might otherwise never have come across: Irish girls, who, after alighting on Ellis Island alone, have married Chinese men in the same predicament. But faced with bigotry in New York from every side, their mixed-race children are often treated badly, by the Irish, the Chinese - even the police...
When the new mother's half-Chinese and half-Irish fifteen year old niece goes missing,
Sarah knows that alerting the constables would prove futile. So she turns to Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy - and together they begin to search for her themselves. And after they find the girl, dead in an alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects from both sides of Canal Street.
This is a good read - great historical references and setting, great characters and the author's plot line is well thought out.
In Chinatown to deliver a baby, Sarah meets a group of women she might otherwise never have come across: Irish girls, who, after alighting on Ellis Island alone, have married Chinese men in the same predicament. But faced with bigotry in New York from every side, their mixed-race children are often treated badly, by the Irish, the Chinese - even the police...
When the new mother's half-Chinese and half-Irish fifteen year old niece goes missing,
Sarah knows that alerting the constables would prove futile. So she turns to Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy - and together they begin to search for her themselves. And after they find the girl, dead in an alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects from both sides of Canal Street.
This is a good read - great historical references and setting, great characters and the author's plot line is well thought out.
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