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    Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
    Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
    Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
    Audiobook9 hours

    Murder on Amsterdam Avenue

    Written by Victoria Thompson

    Narrated by Suzanne Toren

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    In this Gaslight Mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City. In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease. It is a tragic and all too common story-or so it seems. Charles's father asks to speak with Sarah privately. He believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the utmost discretion. Putting their own personal affairs on hold, Sarah and Frank soon learn that not everyone wants to know more about Charles's death, particularly if he was murdered. As they unravel secrets that reach back to the War Between the States, they also discover that they are in the company of a very present danger.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9781490661971
    Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
    Author

    Victoria Thompson

    Victoria Thompson is the author of twenty bestselling historical romances. She is also the Edgar nominated author of the bestselling Gaslight Mystery Series, set in turn-of-the-century New York City and featuring midwife Sarah Brandt. She also contributed to the award winning writing textbook Many Genres/One Craft. A popular speaker, Victoria teaches in the Seton Hill University master's program in writing popular fiction. She lives in Central PA with her husband and a very spoiled little dog.Please visit Victoria Thompson’s www.victoriathompson.homestead.com to learn about new releases and discover old favorites!

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    • 4/5
      In this installment Sarah and Frank need to solve the murder of a man. His daughter is deaf and is happy that her father is dead since he did not allow her to learn sign language. She is in love with one of the teachers at the school for the deaf that Frank's son Brian attends. The wife of the murdered man gives birth to her lover's child in the beginning and all those pieces intertwine to make this a very good read.
    • 3/5
      It took me a few Anne Perry and Victoria Thompson novels to discover that the term 'mystery' has changed from how it was used let's say 10 to 20 years ago. Most readers might still associated a mystery novel with a puzzle and with sleuthing, but those terms rarely apply anymore to modern mysteries. Anne Perry is one of many contemporary authors who writes historical fiction with a romantic inclination, which is probably a better label than mystery. Granted, the reader does not know until the very end who has committed the heinous crime, but then again the reveal is most of the time arrived at by the culprit confessing without provocation and regularly without convincing motivation. You could say: with enough time and social pressure the murderer will eventually show him or herself without the need for evidence. Rarely in these novels is there actual hard evidence linking the crime to the crimee.Traditionally in the context of a murder mystery there are a number of suspects each with the appropriate motivation as to why they wanted to snuff the life out of the poor victim. At the end of the story a sleuth or consulting detective explains why only one of the suspects could have actually committed the crime and why the rest of the bunch are not eligible for the title of murderer, no matter how much they desired that tribute.In an Anne Perry novel the mechanism is reversed, we now have a number of suspects each of which was potentially at the proper place (one will never know) with the right intentions and correct means, but physical evidence and eyewitness reports don't matter that much. The one who has the best motive wins, it's that simple. Instead of the traditional plotting of the author, sleuthing by the detective and puzzling by the readers, we now have novels where the mystery content revolves around veiled dramatic character interactions. Most of these interactions will mostly appeal only to female audiences and ironically portray a rather traditional domestic picture and gender role division.From a historical perspective there is much to be found and experienced. Authors like Anne Perry, Victoria Thompson and Caleb Carr to name just a few, are heavily invested in accurate depictions and appropriately original detail. Reading an Anne Perry is just as much an immersive trip into Victorian Times as it is an ongoing daytime television saga. Readers aren't really invested in an Anne Perry for the story, but for the endless almost but not quite amorous interactions between Charlotte and Thomas. For a Victoria Thompson novel you can swap out Frank and Sarah, everything else stays the same.If you like a trip into a complete and convincing Victorian world with lots of interesting drama and elaborate character interactions through dialog, then you're in for a treat. If you're looking for an Agatha Christie mystery then I suggest you read an Agatha Christie.
    • 4/5
      Murder on Amsterdam Avenue is the 17th book in Victoria Thompson's Gaslight Mysteries series.
    • 4/5
      What I love about these Gaslight Mysteries is that the stories are really about solving the murders. There is romance but it is secondary and doesn't overshadow Sarah and Frank's work on the case. Ms. Thompson also does a good job connecting us to the characters, helping us to understand the motives behind the actions and while I may not always agree with the motives of the murders.

      Frank is supervising the work done on the house he and Sarah will be living in after the are married. Sarah and her mother have paid a condolence call on a family who just lost their son. While there they had a request for Frank - would he be willing to investigate the death of his son. Two more people are murdered in the same way and Frank and Sarah wonder if these cases are related or are they two separate cases?

      This accurately portrayed book talks about how people felt after the Civil War, how immigrants were treated and reminds us that the distinction between rich and poor/black and white is not new and has not gotten better. Each side has valid arguments for feeling the way they do, but until more people begin to act like Frank and Sarah by doing what is right rather than follow the paths laid out nothing will get better.
    • 3/5


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      Charles Oakes, the son of a wealthy family has been poisoned by one of his family members.... Soon to be married; Sarah Brandt & Frank Malloy are asked to look into the case by Sarah's mother & Charles's father.

      While interviewing the family, several other people die of poisoning: the "negro" maid, Daisy & a few of her church friends.
      The "negro" part was significant, as the Oakes were the only family at that time to have negro employees and this played a major part in the plot line.

      Charles's mother was saved from poverty by marrying his father during the Civil War, she was young & beautiful and her home & family had been destroyed..... Leaving her "slave" Daisy behind to one day catch-up w/ her....

      Meanwhile, the new house is not coming along beautifully, until Sarah's ward, Maeve (the well taught daughter of a con-man) steps in to oversee the project....

      I liked the story, I figured out who did it and partially why, and I like the characters....
    • 4/5
      Sarah Brandt and Frank Malloy are engaged, and ready to marry as soon as their house is completed. Malloy has inherited a fortune and is no longer a policeman in nineteenth-century New York City. But a friend of Sarah's society family thinks his son has been murdered, so Frank and Sarah investigate and solve the crimes. Interesting bits of history like the Spanish-American war, graft in NYC politics, Theodore Roosevelt, and race relations are interspersed.
    • 3/5
      I had forgotten that I enjoy this series that is a gentle mystery that imparts a history of the 1890 New York City. The ending is no surprise, but a pleasant ending to a story. Sarah and Frank rush to find the murderer of the son of a wealthy man, who is a member of the Knickerbocker Club. Ms. Thompson goes into all the restrictions of New York society, and the many prejudices that linger from the Civil War. The lot of the Italians and the Negroes came as a surprise to me. Frank is busy renovating the house so that he and Sarah can be married, and of course, Frank no longer works as a New York detective. Thompson creates many nuances within her story of the distinctions of class.
    • 5/5
      This was my favorite book in this series in a long time. I love how they get Sarah and Frank finally together. It was interesting to see how investigations into murders were conducted in the early 1900's. To be able to leave it up to the rich person whether someone is prosecuted or not was weird. I look forward to many more gaslight mysteries.
    • 3/5
      3 1/2! This Gaslight mystery series set in late 19 century New York City, is one of my favourite historical mystery series. I like the recurring characters and Ms. Thompson’s plotting is usually tightly paced and the mystery is usually tricky. In this book, Sarah and Frank are in the midst of getting their new home ready and planning their upcoming wedding when Frank is asked by one of Sarah’s father’s friends to find out how his son died. He had taken sick suddenly and had been sick for a few days and then died. His son was newly married with a new job. As Sarah and Frank try to determine what happened to Charles Oakes, they uncover some old and long buried family secrets in the Oakes family. These secrets date back to the American Civil War and it soon becomes apparent that these secrets, though buried, still have the power to inflame someone to murder, someone who doesn’t care how many others are killed in the process. Unfortunately, I didn’t find this book as compelling as others in the series have been. I had determined almost immediately who the killer was, and I had also figured out what the big secret was that caused the string of murders. I still enjoyed the characters, and it was nice to see Sarah and Frank finally get married. Their marriage will change the structure of future books and investigations, but I am looking forward to reading more in the series.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book, the latest in the Gaslight Mystery Series. Frank Malloy no longer with the police is doing some private detective work and is hired by friends of the Brandts to look into the death of Charles Fairfax because his father believes he was poisoned. Frank, of course, enlists Sarah's help along with Maeve and Gino while trying to keep the workmen on track updating the new house that he bought.