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No one expects to be murdered in a church. And yet this is precisely what happens to two seemingly blameless young women in City of Wind, the sixth book of the City of Mystery series.
It is spring, 1891. Scotland Yard's first forensics unit is reeling from a series of painful losses, and Detective Trevor Welles has traveled to America to teach the San Francisco police the fledgling science of fingerprinting. When a badly decomposed body is found in a church belfry, Trevor, along with Rayley Abrams and Davy Mabrey, finds himself reluctantly drawn into the case. For once it's easier to identify a suspect than the victim and Theo Durant, Sunday School superintendent and unrepentant ladies' man, is at the top of everyone's list. The police aren't so sure. As Davy puts it "any man who looks that guilty almost has to be innocent."
While the body count rises and the evidence grows, Trevor and his team must race to find the truth before a vigilante crowd takes justice into their own hands. The men may have science and proximity on their side, but it will take the insight of three women back in England - Gerry, Emma, and Leanna - to uncover the dark family secrets that first drove the killer to violence. After a final life and death struggle on Alcatraz, even a group of forensics experts must admit that the "why" of murder is sometimes more revealing than the "how."
Genre: Historical Mystery
It is spring, 1891. Scotland Yard's first forensics unit is reeling from a series of painful losses, and Detective Trevor Welles has traveled to America to teach the San Francisco police the fledgling science of fingerprinting. When a badly decomposed body is found in a church belfry, Trevor, along with Rayley Abrams and Davy Mabrey, finds himself reluctantly drawn into the case. For once it's easier to identify a suspect than the victim and Theo Durant, Sunday School superintendent and unrepentant ladies' man, is at the top of everyone's list. The police aren't so sure. As Davy puts it "any man who looks that guilty almost has to be innocent."
While the body count rises and the evidence grows, Trevor and his team must race to find the truth before a vigilante crowd takes justice into their own hands. The men may have science and proximity on their side, but it will take the insight of three women back in England - Gerry, Emma, and Leanna - to uncover the dark family secrets that first drove the killer to violence. After a final life and death struggle on Alcatraz, even a group of forensics experts must admit that the "why" of murder is sometimes more revealing than the "how."
Genre: Historical Mystery
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