Cleopatra's Dagger

A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a serial killer in a gripping thriller by the prizewinning author of the Ian Hamilton Mysteries. New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the citys most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a womans body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Parkthe intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatras Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York Citys darkest shadows. When more bodies turn up, each tied to Egyptian lore, Elizabeth is onto a headline-making scoop more sinister than she could have imagined. Her reporting has readers spellbound, and each new clue implicates New Yorks richest and most powerful citizens. And a serial killer is watching every headline. Now a madman with an indecipherable motive is coming after Elizabeth and everyone she loves. She wants a good story? She may have to die to get it.