Lynn D. reviewed on 10/22/2013

Helpful Score: 1

"When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy is up to the challenge - but he faces a different kind of challenge when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes. Faced with the impossibility of ever expressing his true feelings for Sarah, Frank had vowed never to see or work with her again." For her part, Sarah is glad to be working with Malloy once again in his hunt for a dangerous killer - though they clash over his conviction that the murder was politically motivated."

This was a pure delight to read! Sarah's mother gets drawn into the mysteries deaths in helping her daughter and not only shows how daughter and mother are much alike but her delightful sense of humor comes across, giving me a chuckle even! This was a more complicated mystery than the other ones in the series but also as good, quick moving, well written! So glad I've found Victoria Thompson's stories!

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