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    Lady Cop Makes Trouble
    Lady Cop Makes Trouble
    Lady Cop Makes Trouble
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    Lady Cop Makes Trouble

    Written by Amy Stewart

    Narrated by Christina Moore

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    The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation's first deputy sheriffs. She's proven that she can't be deterred, evaded, or outrun. But when the wiles of a German-speaking con man threaten her position and her hopes for this new life, and endanger the honorable Sheriff Heath, Constance may not be able to make things right. Lady Cop Makes Trouble sets Constance loose on the streets of New York City and New Jersey--tracking down victims, trailing leads, and making friends with girl reporters and lawyers at a hotel for women. Cheering her on, and goading her, are her sisters Norma and Fleurette--that is, when they aren't training pigeons for the war effort or fanning dreams of a life on the stage. Based on a true story, Girl Waits with Gun introduced Constance Kopp and her charming and steadfast sisters to an army of enthusiastic readers. Those readers will be thrilled by this second installment--also ripped from the headlines--in the romping, wildly readable life of a woman forging her own path, tackling crime and nefarious criminals along the way.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781501930232
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    Amy Stewart

    AMY STEWART is the New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Kopp Sisters series, which began with Girl Waits with Gun. Her seven nonfiction books include The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. She lives in Portland, Oregon. 

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    • 3/5
      Fun but of historical fiction. I enjoyed the ending.
    • 4/5
      Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart is another fun entry in her Kopp Sisters series. After the events of the first book, Constance is now working for Sheriff Heath with the intention of becoming the first female deputy. It is 1915 and unfortunately, others are not ready to accept Constance as a deputy so she is instead working as the matron at the jail. The story follows two crimes with Constance being at the centre of both. In one, a prisoner escapes from a hospital bed and Constance was the guard in charge of looking after this prisoner and so feel that it is her responsibility to retrieve the escapee. In the other, due to conflicting evidence, a prisoner who cheerfully admits to murder might be set free. These two stories keep Constance so busy that there is very little time spent with her sisters, and I did miss reading about their relationship. But Constance is more than enough to keep the pages turning, she’s determined, headstrong and dedicated to the law.The series is based on the real life of Constance Kopp, but the author freely admits that she has taken liberties to enhance the book. The book moves quickly as Constance is determined to win a deputy’s badge for herself. The story is well written, historically accurate and entertaining and I am looking forward to continuing with the series.
    • 4/5
      Oooh, I like these books -- I like the history, I like the way the story is told -- almost journalistic in the telling, and unsentimental. I like the sheer, unending, stubborn badassery that Constance displays, from her fearless investigating to her refusal to give up on the position she wants to have. I also really love that her focus is the work. Always the work. She's loyal to her Sheriff, and perhaps becoming fond, but she doesn't let that get in the way of doing the things she needs to do.
    • 4/5
      The 2nd in the Kopp Sisters series finds Constance working as a deputy for Sheriff Health. But when a prisoner escapes under her watch, she decides it's her responsibility to find him or the Sheriff himself will end up in jail. Once again, this novel of historical fiction set in the early 1920s, is based on the life of the real Constance Kopp, Patterson, NJ's first woman deputy. Historical notes and citations are included in the end. She's a strong, determined, engaging and at times funny character. The lives of her and her quirky sisters are worth a read.
    • 3/5
      The second entry in the "Kopp Sisters" series. Very little sisters stuff in this one, except on the home front; it's almost exclusively Constance's show until the very end when she pulls Norma into the action a bit. Acting as a deputy sheriff in the Hackensack Sheriff's department, Constance fails at guarding a prisoner while he's in hospital after (she suspects) faking illness. The story is all about her trying to redeem herself by finding and apprehending the fugitive. I found it a bit thin, but it kept me reading. I don't think this series will ever be one of my favorites, but it's a place to turn for mild and unchallenging entertainment from time to time.
    • 4/5
      The real-life Constance Kopp was the square peg in a world of round holes. She didn't fit in, and so she carved out her own space. The Kopp Sisters Series takes us on a fictionalized jaunt through her world. Lady Cop Makes Trouble is a fun story that has us chasing down an escaped prisoner throughout New Jersey and New York. I love the way Amy Stewart captures the era. Little observations and details bring the setting to life, and the dialogue is perfection.The plot is straight forward, without a lot of surprises, but the journey is totally enjoyable. This is the second book in the series. While it can be read as a stand-alone, I recommend starting at the beginning for a better sense of Constance Kopp's personal life and backstory. Book 5 is releasing soon, and I still need books 3 and 4. I have some catching up to do!*I received a review copy from the publisher.*
    • 4/5
      The magic Amy Stewart instilled in “Girl Waits with Gun,” the first novel in her Kopp Sisters series, remains in her second, “Lady Cop Makes Trouble” (2016). Oh, maybe it’s not quite the same magic. Her characters, so original and surprising in the first outing, are now familiar, and the plot lacks complexity. Even so, the second novel entertains from beginning to end.Constance Kopp is now working for Sheriff Heath, but without a badge. The sheriff questions whether he is legally permitted to hire a female deputy in New Jersey in 1915. So Constance is made jail matron, in charge of female prisoners. When she is called to assist with a hospitalized male prisoner because she speaks German, she sees it as a break. Instead it is the prisoner, the Rev. Dr. Herman Albert von Matthesius, who gets a break, or rather makes a break. And he escapes while Constance is supposed to be watching him but briefly leaves his hospital room.Now with her job on the line (as well as the sheriff's), not to mention any chance she might have of ever becoming a deputy, Constance is determined to track down Matthesius herself, never mind that the sheriff has ordered her back to the jail. So most of the novel involves her disobeying direct orders while staying a step ahead of the sheriff and his deputies in tracking down the escapee.There are no murders here, although there is a killing in a subplot, and we are never entirely sure what Matthesius is accused of doing. (The novel is based loosely on actual events, and the crimes of the real Matthesius are unclear in the historical record.) Still there is plenty of action and plenty of suspense. Supporting characters — the sheriff’s unhappy wife, Constance’s older sister, Norma, with her passion for homing pigeons, and the theatrical younger sister, Fleurette (actually Constance’s daughter, although Fleurette doesn’t know it), fill out the story without slowing it down.
    • 5/5
      I love this series! Constance is now acting as matron at the women’s jail since the freeholders are reluctant to give a woman the badge and title of Deputy Sheriff. The Sheriff takes her with him to the hospital where one of his prisoner’s has been taken because he needs a German interpreter and on arrival there is an emergency from a train wreck and he’s called to help with bringing the wounded in. During the storm the lights go out and Constance was told to guard the prisoner’s door. In the darkness Herman von Matthesius manages to escape after faking his illness. She’s to blame. However, there’s the threat of the Sheriff being jailed because it is his prisoner that got away. The book is about the manhunt and the family life of both Constance’s family and Sheriff Heath's family and problems resulting from their jobs.
    • 4/5
      I enjoy the character of Constance Kopp - what makes her even more interesting is that she is based on a real person! Historical aspects of the story are interesting and the writing is good - it all makes for a great read. This is the second book in the series and I will continue reading about the Kopp sisters!
    • 5/5
      In the last book set in 1915, Constance Kopp is promised a sheriff's deputy's badge by Sheriff Heath, making her the first lady deputy in the state. But when this book opens Constance is doing the work of a female deputy, but without the badge. Her main job is as the jailhouse matron for the female prisoners. One of the male prisoners, Herman Albert von Matthesius, who has posed as a doctor and did horrible things but is in jail for theft and received a year of jail time. While there he would insist on speaking German and the only person who spoke German was Constance so she would be called in to interpret for him.Then he got sick and the county had refused the Sheriff a doctor for the jail, so they had to send Matthesius to the hospital. He would only speak in German so Constance was called to the hospital to translate. A train had had an accident injuring at least half a dozen people so the hospital was jumping. Deputy English, whom Constance doesn't think too highly of, escorts her the hospital room. English wants to leave and go help the Sheriff so she tells him to go ahead and he does. She questions Matthesius about his complaints and he tells her of his problems. She steps outside to look for a doctor and to guard the door. Then the lights go out and things really become chaotic. Just then Sheriff Heath arrives and they go to check on the prisoner and he's gone. Heath sends his deputies out to search for him and he sends Constance home.He had finally given her something really big to do and she blew it. Constance wants to hide under her covers but her two sisters Norma and Fleurette won't let her. Well, sister and daughter, though Fleurette doesn't know that she's her daughter. That's another thing that she has to worry about now that Fleuette is eighteen-years-old and while she enrolled her into a school for the dramatic arts to keep her busy she is taking to it very seriously and is coming into contact with dashing young men whose intentions are perhaps all too clear. And she wants to run off to New York City to become an actress. Whatever are Norma and Constance to do with Fleurette? But then Norma and Fleurette convince Constance to go out and capture Matthesius herself and redeem herself and perhaps get her badge in the process.She starts off going to the place where the sheriff has already gone to but it provided no answers. She went to a friend of hers in New York City who is a photographer whom she thought might have followed the story, but he had no information for her except that she should follow the names in the crime and ask them herself what happened since the papers didn't report it in great detail and the sheriff never told her. So she hunts down the three young men involved in this horrible act and finds out the truth which helps her get a step closer to Matthesius and helps to redeem herself in the eyes of some of the deputies.Constance is more than a character in that she really lived and this case really happened, though not entirely the way Stewart depicts it in her book. Stewart took newspaper clippings and brought them to life to tell the story of a dangerous criminal who escaped from jail and how Constance hunted him down alongside Sheriff Heath and how the Freeholders of the town were calling to have the sheriff put in jail if the prisoner wasn't found which was the law back then. There is also the story of one of the female jail inmates who is accused of murder who the local detective has found evidence that shows she is innocent, but whom the woman herself swears she did it. It's up to Constance to get to the bottom of it. This book is just as good as the last book which was fantastic. These sisters are such interesting characters and the fact that they really lived just adds to it. Constance's need to prove herself in a man's world doing a job that she loves and fighting to keep doing it really speaks to me as a woman, but it has universal themes to anyone who feels that life has given them the short end of the stick. This is an amazing book and I highly recommend it. I give it five out of five stars. QuotesIt was the belief of Sheriff Heath and some of the more reform-minded sheriffs in the state that the criminal mind could be rehabilitated by imposing order upon a disordered life. According to this line of thinking, women committed fewer crimes precisely because their days were filled with domestic duties. -Amy Stewart (Lady Cop Makes Trouble p 35)It occurred to me that there was something about a man in his late thirties. He was old enough to know his own mind and still young enough to do something about it.-Amy Stewart (Lady Cop Makes Trouble p 46)Yes, well he’s a man of limited intellect, and if he had more than one idea at a time they’d die from overcrowding.-Amy Stewart (Lady Cop Makes Trouble p 71)
    • 4/5
      A very worthy successor to the marvelous first book, I'd say just-as-good but any book would be hard-pressed to completely equal the first one, which was just as compelling, just as well-written, but contained the very touching late reveal which of course couldn't happen again in this book. (Sometimes a series improves as the author finds their footing--she clearly had her footing right from the get-go!)

      A wonderful series, my new favourite (sorry, Flavia deLuce!)

      (Note: 5 stars = rare and amazing, 4 = quite good book, 3 = a decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. There are a lot of 4s and 3s in the world!)
    • 4/5
      Constance is moved sideways to the role of prison guard while her boss argues that she should be enabled to be a full officer but society pressures loom large.When she temporarally takes charge of an apparently immobile prisoner who is in the hospital he disappears when the lights go out and she has to find him, whether she is sanctioned or not. There are also a few other cases happening in the Prison and out.Meanwhile life continues with her sisters and there is change coming.It's an interesting series reflecting real life of the era and a woman who was determined to do her own thing.
    • 5/5
      historical-fiction, historical-places-events, historical-research, action-adventure, law-enforcement, family-dynamics What do Amy Stewart and Clive Cussler have in common? Great storytelling and impeccable historical research! As a mystery I really enjoyed it, as law enforcement history it is excellent well done, and as a window into the lives of women a hundred years ago it is an education for the uneducated. I totally enjoyed it! Christina Moore does a great job as narrator, and really adds positive things to the story!
    • 5/5
      Loved this book! I adore the main characters. This sequel was just as good as the first book and I can't wait to read the 3rd installment when it comes out later this year.
    • 4/5
      Great historical fiction based on the first female deputy sheriff in the 1910’s. I always look forward to the afterword by the author telling how she came up with the storyline.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed "Girl Waits with Gun" but I was afraid that a sequel wouldn't be as good. I needn't have worried! Contance Kopp is just as believable and likeable in this book as she was in the first one. We don't get to see quite as much interaction between Constance and her sisters, but we do get to know Sheriff Heath better. The story is fun and interesting, and all the more interesting for being true.The audiobook narrator for this series is wonderful.
    • 4/5
      Constance Kopp is back, trying to make a name for herself in the Bergen County, police department but is relegated to overseeing the women's jail. The setting is New Jersey and NYC, 1917. After a prisoner escapes, on Constance's watch...the chase is on. The plot is a bit thin but this is about the characters and following Constance and her family, along with Sheriff Heath, are what is worth turning the pages for. I preferred Girl Waits With Gun but it is a light, fun read and there is a nifty development that happens at the end, that will spark interest in the next book.
    • 3/5
      Constance Kopp (I know, right?), the female jail matron (who is hoping to become a "deputy") inadvertently allows a dangerous criminal to escape... A doctor who had been preying on women: using their maladies as a means to glean $$$$ from their unsuspecting families.Being taken off of police duties, doesn't stop Constance, nor does being told to not interfere with trying to recapture the doctor.She goes out on her own and tackles the doctor's brother (his accomplice) and successfully interviews several other witnesses/abettors. Meanwhile, Constance is also working on the case of a woman who supposedly shot & killed her renter (while aiming at her abusive husband). As the investigation wears on, it becomes clear that the woman doesn't want to be cleared of the crime and wants to stay in jail.The parts about Constance's family (her 2 sisters) is a bit of a distraction and not as interesting (- one star)It was a good story, I'm hoping as more of the series is written that there will be a better balance.
    • 4/5
      Read from August 20 to September 03, 2016Amy Stewart does it again -- she manages to take history and bring it to life. I loved Girl Waits with Gun and this follow-up does not disappoint. Constance has continued working with Sheriff Heath, but a lot of folks aren't crazy about a woman deputy. When Constance makes an error in judgement that results in a prisoner's escape, she vows to make it right.I love that Stewart includes what's real and what she fictionalized at the end of each book -- it makes it even more enjoyable for me.
    • 5/5
      I am really liking these so far. Amy Stewart has crafted another interesting if not nail-biting mystery around actual events and cases that Miss Constance Kopp worked on in her career. Lady Cop Makes Trouble focuses on the case of escaped convict Von Matthesius and Kopp's efforts to recapture him. Along the way she also investigates a landlady arrested for killing a tenant and man taking advantageous of native young girls. Kopp's sisters play a much smaller part in this story and Stewart turns up the tension between Kopp and Sheriff Heath without so much as implying any attraction or romance (although Normal gets a few jabs in on occasion). I kept expecting the story to drag, but it moved along well and the pacing was smooth; there's very little 'whodunnit' here so any expectations on the part of mystery lovers is going to require some adjustments. It's definitely worth it. As before, Stewart includes an acknowledgments and citations page at the end that discusses exactly what parts of the story were taken from newspapers and historical accounts, with relevant citations and suggested readings, and which parts of the story she made up. It's not unreasonable to imagine that if Stewart kept writing Kopp's adventures, a reader would end up with a rather credible biography at the end of it. I'll be hoping for a third book, at least.
    • 4/5
      Having not read the first in this series, I was unsure what it would be like to jump into this book without the backstory. I am happy to say I thoroughly enjoyed Lady Cop Makes Trouble and didn’t feel the story was hard to follow at all. Constance Kopp, who is based on a real woman of the same name, has proven herself in the previous installment and become a deputy sheriff, albeit without a badge yet. As Lady Cop Makes Trouble opens in the year 1915, Constance finds out that her position may be in jeopardy based on the current New Jersey law. Already stressed by this news, Constance manages to let a German con man escape from a hospital where she is guarding him, further compromising her position as a deputy sheriff. In hot pursuit of Dr. von Matthesius, Constance travels all over New Jersey and New York City trying to locate him to return him to jail and also attempting to piece together his original crime in hopes that will lead her to him. Stewart vividly portrays her characters, and I felt like I knew Constance, her sisters, and Sheriff Heath. Constance faced so many issues as a female law enforcement officer; some issues that I think people would argue are still faced today. Stewart was so on point with individual’s reactions to Constance as a female deputy during this time period – sadly even some women were skeptical.The covers for this series are absolutely phenomenal. The graphics are outstanding and unique and so cleverly capture the spirit of the story. I also enjoyed Amy Stewart’s Historical Notes, Sources, and Acknowledgements section at the end of the book. As a lover of historical fiction, I am always thrilled to find such a section from the author providing information about the real life characters about which the story is based. Stewart provides incredible detail and explains what really occurred and what she added to the story. I love this because it really helps me put her story in context and understand what truly happened and what she created to make such a fun novel. Authors don’t always take the time and effort to write such a section, and I so appreciate when an author like Stewart does.I highly recommend this clever, insightful novel about events I knew very little about. Thanks to Edelweiss and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for this advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart is a delight. I loved her Girl Waits With Gun and this is the next in her series about the Kopp sisters, three distinct women in the early 20th century who live life on their own terms. I love that she takes real events and builds them up, delving into the characters and the times to make entertaining and enlightening stories.
    • 3/5
      Alas, not nearly as entertaining as meeting the Kopp sisters in the first book of the series but still an enjoyable story of a unique woman making her way in law enforcement at a time when women are not welcome. Constance is a likable and sympathetic character and this installment provides powerful images of life for the lower classes in this era.
    • 4/5
      “‘Lady Cop Makes Trouble.’ That’s our headline.”“Am I making trouble for the sheriff or the criminals?” I asked.“Both, at the moment. You’ll be famous either way.”The year is 1915 and Constance Kopp couldn’t be more pleased with her new role as the first female deputy in Bergen County, New Jersey. Her happiness comes to a crashing halt when Sheriff Heath advises her that the law allowing women to be police officers doesn’t necessarily apply to women deputies, and that there must be a legal precedent in order for her to keep her job. Until that precedent can be found (or until Sheriff Heath decides to set his own precedent) Constance is given the role of jail matron in charge of the female prisoners. To make matters worse, a prisoner escapes from her watch and not only is she facing serious trouble but due to a law of the time, the Sheriff may actually be jailed in the escaped prisoners place. Constance admits full blame for her error but instead of wallowing in the loss of the future she dreamed for herself, she decides to get out there and find the prisoner and right a wrong.Lady Cop Makes Trouble was yet another captivating and enticing story and Constance is even more of a charismatic character. Fascinating and incredibly memorable, Constance Amelie Kopp was a real woman in history that was credited as being one of America’s first female deputy sheriffs. The story has been embellished making this a work of fiction, however much of it still remains true. She really did go after an escaped prisoner by the name of Dr. von Matthesius, she was responsible for a major arrest during the investigation, and the three boys which brought Dr. von Matthesius to the attention of the authorities were also real individuals from history. The blending of both fact and fiction emphasizes what a thorough amount of historical research was conducted to bring such an enigmatic character to life.What was most enticing about this installment was how realistic the story portrays detective work. It showed the long nights standing on cold streets waiting for suspects to make an appearance, the time spent waiting for trial, and running out of leads and being unsure of what to do next. Sure, that may seem boring and tedious especially when it comes to having to actually read about it, but it was all just so refreshingly genuine feeling compared to mysteries where everything goes perfectly. I for one had many childhood aspirations of someday being a detective and solving crimes (this can be mostly blamed on Nancy Drew and X-Files) and while Nancy Drew and Dana Scully are perfectly acceptable role models, Constance Kopp is the real deal. I anxiously await future adventures from the inspirational Constance Kopp.
    • 5/5
      I loved the first Constance Kopp book, Girl Waits with Gun, and was excited about reading this one. I still love the intrepid, and not dainty, Constance, but now she wants to be a Deputy Sheriff, badge and all, and things are not going her way. Not that it would be easy in a man's world in 1915. This is a fictionalized about of a real person and actual events, which makes it even better in my eyes. And Stewart paces the story well. I love her characters and her writing. Constance has two sisters, all three very different from one another and all three terrific to read about.Having said that, I didn't love this book quite as much as I did the first one. Capturing an escaped fugitive dragged on a bit too long, and Constance was a bit too stubborn in a spot or two. Nevertheless, I very much enjoyed reading this book and hope there will be a third about Constance.I was given an advance e-galley copy of this book for review.
    • 3/5
      Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart follows the first book about Constance Kopp. I love reading historical fiction mysteries but this one did not seem to be at the same level as the first book. The characters, except for the criminals were all the same. I enjoyed getting back to learning more about Constance. It is now 1915. Her sister, Norma is still tending her carrier pigeons and delighting in the daily gossip. Her other sister, Fleurette, is still the actress in the family and has begun to sew her own clothes and for others in the cast. Constance is tall and stout and bored by the usual occupations open to women at the time. She applies for a position as a deputy since the new law stated that women could fill that position. She does not have a proper badge so Sheriff Heath decides to have her be a jail matron for the women prisoners. Sheriff Heath’s wife plays a bigger part in this book than in the first. She seems a bit jealous of Constance spending so much time with her husband but she disguises her displeasure as by finding Constance being improper, by not following the rules of society. Constance is with the women prisoners but she is called in as consultations since she speaks both French and German. No one can figure out what Baron von Matthesius is saying. He switched to German even though he knew English. He manages to escape. Now Constance and the Sheriff’s jobs are both in jeopardy. Constance may never get to be a real deputy and Sheriff Heath in danger of imprisonment himself.Even though the historical details were fascinating, this book has the same problem as the first one. The pace is so slow and that it is unnerving! I remember reading to a certain point and considering giving up but suddenly that were was a dramatic surprise. Then the book went back to its painfully slow pace.So, I loved the quirky characters and learning about what 1915 was like in New York and New Jersey and the author included a photo of the real Constance Kopp and information on what was fact and what was fiction in her story. I enjoyed that quite a bit. I received an Advance Reading Copy of this book as a win from First Reads from the publishers in exchange for a fair book review. My thoughts and feelings in this review are totally my own.
    • 3/5
      The next installment in the, based on fact, adventures of Constance Kopp.This delightful series is packed with so much historical information about the people and places and events taking place in Paterson, NJ and NYC in 1915.The idea of a female deputy Sherrif is not setting well with the Bergen County Freeholders, so Sherrif Heath has had to place Constance as the jail matron until he can return her to a deputy position. This dies not make Constance happy, as she wants to be part of the action and the chase. When, a prisoner under her watch escapes from a hospital, Constance is obligated to return him to custody. There is not as much of a story line for the other two Kopp ladies in this book but I think they may figure more prominently in the next book.Read as aa ARC from NetGalley.