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    Murder in Morningside Heights
    Murder in Morningside Heights
    Murder in Morningside Heights
    Audiobook9 hours

    Murder in Morningside Heights

    Written by Victoria Thompson

    Narrated by Suzanne Toren

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    In the latest from the bestselling author of Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue, former police sergeant Frank Malloy and his wife adjust to life in New York high society as they investigate a death in the field of higher learning... After spending his first few weeks as a private detective by investigating infidelities of the wealthy, Frank has a more serious case at hand. Abigail Northrup of Tarrytown, New York, was her parents' pride and joy. After graduating from a prestigious women's college in Morningside Heights, she took a job there as an instructor. She also joined the ranks of the New Women, ladies planning for a life without a husband in which they make their own decisions and make a difference in the world. Unfortunately, her murder ended all that. When the police declare the incident a random attack and refuse to investigate further, Abigail's parents request Frank's help. Of course, he'll need Sarah's assistance as she's more familiar with the world of academia, and it will be far easier for her to interview the lady professors. Yet difficulties arise as they learn that although Miss Northrup may have been an exemplary student and teacher, she lived in a world of secrets and lies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 3, 2016
    ISBN9781501911415
    Murder in Morningside Heights
    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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    • 2/5
      Murder in Morningside Heights
      2 Stars

      Now a private investigator, Frank Malloy, is hired by the parents of a young woman on the grounds of the Normal school in Morningside Heights. Who would have wanted the French teacher dead?

      Unfortunately, there is nothing new or interesting in this installment. In fact, the series has stagnated Frank and Sarah have settled into married life and there is little to no character development for them or any of the secondary cast.

      The mystery is mundane with a predictable culprit and much of the investigation consists of repeated interviews and redundant musings.

      Something needs to happen to shake things up in this series.
    • 5/5
      I've read the books in this series and now I'm enjoying the audio. It truly is a 'production. The narrator is phenomenal with the different voices for the characters. She has spoiled me for other audio books! Highly recommend.
    • 3/5
      Frank Mallory and his new wife Sarah are not use to the life of leisure that wealth has given them. Frank has begun a detective agency and has Gino Donatelli for an assistant. Of course, Sarah and Mauve jump into the adventure whenever they are needed. In this caper, a young woman has been brutally murdered in a gazebo of a local women’s college. Abigail teaches at the college and lives with two other women teachers. Victoria Thompson presents many interesting facts such as a “Boston” marriage and the rules of teaching at a woman’s college. Is the murder a result of a love triangle or is the murder concerning a scandal waiting to be reported? Victoria Thompson relates many of the customs and rules of Knickerbocker New York that are very interesting.
    • 4/5
      Murder in Morningside Hieghts, the 19th book in Victoria Thompson's gaslight mystery, finds the former Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy operating a private detective agency called 'Confidential Investigations'. He's a multimillionaire so he doesn't need the money, but his employee, former police officer Gino Donatelli does. They are hired by Mr. & Mrs. Northrup to find out who murdered their intelligent and well-educated daughter, Abigail, who was an instructress in French at the Normal school, a college for women. One of the disadvantages in listening to a book is that one can't just flip pages to find something half-remembered, but I think this book is set in January of February, probably 1899 (book 18 was set in the last weeks of 1898).Abigail was murdered in the college's gazebo. The killer used a screwdriver accidentally left behind by the janitor, an elderly African-American man named Tobias. Mrs. Northrup keeps wailing that if they'd insisted their daughter stay home after graduation she would still be alive. From what we learn about Abigail's character, she might well have been murdered in Tarrytown someday. I don't like Cornelius Raymond, brother of Abigail's best friend, Irene, but I can't help thinking he dodged a bullet in not getting to marry her. To have to live with self-righteous superiority can't be easy.I feel sorry for Abigail's brother, Luther. It's obvious that the young man, who isn't even remotely the scholar his sister was, is the less-favored child. The Northrups were unusual in favoring a college education for their daughter instead of their son, but I'll grant them the good sense to know such an educational opportunity would have been wasted on Luther,Both young men are suspects for Malloy and Donatelli, as is Miss Georgia Wilson, the only female college professor at the Normal school. Abigail was living in the spare bedroom of Miss Wilson's house. Another college instructress, Miss Estelle Billingsley, had been a long time resident as well. Miss Wilson's African-American servant, Bathsheba, knows plenty. She's no Abigail fan.Sarah Brandt Malloy is no longer a practicing midwife and she's getting rather bored. How provident that the same mission for girls that provided her with her foster daughter, Catherine, and Catherine's remarkable nursemaid, Maeve Smith, needs her. The mission has to appear respectable in order to safeguard the reputations of the homeless girls to whom they offer a safe home -- not to mention keeping rich women funding them. That's why pregnant girls aren't admitted. Hannah, a tall and rather stocky girl who has been living there for months, is at least six months pregnant. That's not far enough along for her to apply to one of the homes that taken in unwed mothers. Besides, Hannah wants to keep her baby. Sarah is going to help Hannah find somewhere else to go.Sarah's mother, Elizabeth Decker, gets to help out because there are some letters that might lead to the murderer's identity, but there in French. It's not that Sarah and Elizabeth didn't take French in school, it's that they don't remember enough of the language to deal with the letters (most of my schoolgirl French is gone, too). Elizabeth finds a discreet lady who can translate for them.The college is trying to avoid a scandal that might force it to shut down. Its head, Mr. Hatch, hires Frank when there's another murder. It was interesting to find out that the professors were all male and resented Miss Wilson being made a professor instead of a mere instructress. They felt a man should have the job because men have families to support. (Sarah reflected on how she supported herself after she was widowed.)As usual, the book jumps back and forth among the actions of the main characters: Frank, Sarah, and Gino this time. Telephones are around, but this is long before the invention of cell phones. Unless one character calls another, they have to wait until they meet in the evening to find out who has learned what. A timely call or text might have saved one of our heroes from the killer trying to take out a third victim.The Hannah problem is solved after the case is solved. Frank has an idea that might help Sarah keep from being one of the idle bored, and I don't mean taking up embroidery or tatting.In case you're wondering, Velvet and Hattie (Patty?), hired by the Malloys at the end of the last book, are still working for them.One thing I do wish that Ms. Thompson would do is look up synonyms for 'grin'. As she did in the last book, our main characters grin at each other so much I got irritated.
    • 3/5
      I wondered how Victoria Thompson would change the focus of the Gaslight Mystery series now that Sarah and Frank are newly married and Frank has inherited several million dollars. They live in a big house with servants to answer their every need, but they are bored. Sarah is no longer a midwife and Frank, forced out of the New York City Police department, has nothing to occupy his days. He decides to open up his own private investigation firm.

      His first case concerns Abigail Northrup, a young woman and recently-hired French instructor at a prestigious women’s college in Morningside Heights. Abigail was surprised to be offered a job teaching in the same college she recently graduated from. Before too long, she is discovered in the gazebo, brutally murdered with a screwdriver, left behind by the janitor. Abigail’s parents decide to hire Frank to find the killer and keep her reputation from being exploited by the press.

      This book was okay but definitely lacked the charm of the first books of the series. Now that Sarah and Frank are married they seem to have little romantic charisma. Sarah helps Frank solve the mystery, but is a lot less engaged than usual. I'm disappointed that so little use has been made of Maeve, who would be such a great asset to the detective agency. There are some changes at the end of the story that might make the next book in the series more exciting. I hope so, because I have enjoyed the series for a number of years. I'll definitely give it a try once it's released.
    • 4/5
      Great mystery, but this time not enough character development. The bits about "keeping busy" seemed gratuitous and we only heard from Mrs. Malloy once or twice, so incidental. The heart of the books is getting lost.
    • 4/5
      In the early 20th century, a young female college teacher is found murdered in the school's gazebo by the handyman.... The young woman's parents hire Frank Malloy to bring the murderer to justice as the local NY police refuse to investigate further without a substantial bribe.The young woman was a headstrong, independent, intelligent, and modern-thinking woman, who chose her career over marriage & a "traditional" life.The young woman was also a "Bostonian" (literary term for women in "particular" friendships) and living with two other women; one a recently promoted "professor" and the other another teacher at the same school.The young woman had found out something "scandalous" about someone in the college and intended to expose the person, unfortunately she decided to confront the person first, thus ending her life.Suspects included: both of her "roommates", her brother, her spurned suitor, and the French professor with whom she shared an office.... all of whom have secrets and reasons.Later along in the story one of the suspects also becomes a murder victim when she also confronts the person.Included in the investigation are: Mrs. Malloy (Sara Brandt), Maeve (the nanny), Gino (former NYPD) and Mrs. Brandt (Sara's mother)...The other story line relates to Sara's former career as a midwife for those in need and her charity work for a shelter for homeless girls.The story was interesting, I like the characters; but with one clue at the end which tied in to a sentence near the beginning, I was able to figure out the murderer.
    • 4/5
      Frank Malloy and Sarah explore the changing roles for women in this mystery set in turn of the century New York City. A young instructor at a normal school in the city is murdered, and the police aren't interesting. So it's a case for the now-wealthy Malloys. Interesting exploration of the status of women at that time. Plot resolution a bit weak (why the second murder?), but over all an excellent addition to the Gaslight Mystery series.
    • 4/5
      Frank and Sarah are now married and have set up a 'private inquiry" business with Gino working with them. This time there's been a murder at an upper-class girls' school and the police aren’t making progress so her parents would like Frank to look into it. The murdered teacher, a woman, was very ambitious but was well liked. I guessed the murderer early on and what was going on in the dead woman’s life.
    • 3/5
      I found this book a rather weak entry into the Sarah Brandt series. Maybe it's because Sarah and Frank are now married and happily ensconced in their new mansion. Frank's no longer with the police and Sarah is no longer practicing midwifery. This domestic bliss, funnily, seemed to take away from the suspense and excitement of the story. These books are enjoyable because they always seemed to be a realistic portrayal of life in late 19 century New York City. This book does that to a point, but even that seems watered down somewhat. It was okay, but certainly not a page-turner.