Read Series: Gaslight Mystery
by Author Victoria Thompson
Murder on Astor Place (1999)
After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed. At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl's room, and discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent families i...
Murder on St. Mark's Place (2000)
As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy, birth and death-and even murder. And the crime ridden streets of the teeming city offer little relief from either.Thinking she has been summoned by German immigrant Agnes Otto to usher a n...
Murder on Marble Row (2005)
Victoria Thompson's Gaslight mystery series is an intriguing look at society and crime in turn-of-the-century New York City. With previous bestsellers in paperback, this captivating series makes its hardcover debut with Murder on Marble Row --- a story filled with fascinating characters from all ...
Murder on Gramercy Park (2001)
As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen her share of suffering and joy, birth and death. Now, she learns that crime doesn’t discriminate, when the highest echelons of society are rocked by murder… A Gaslight Mystery At a summons from Detective Se...
Murder on Washington Square (2002)
Turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Molloy are thrust into a twisted case of murder—when a seductress falls victim to her own charades.
Murder on Mulberry Bend (2003)
Sarah Brandt, a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York City, has seen more than her share of joy and sorrow, birth and death. Now she will see for the first time how the squalor of the streets can breed madness and murder…The Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend stands as a refuge for girls who...
Murder on Lenox Hill (2006)
Murder on Lenox Hill was an interesting turning point in the Gaslight Mystery series. Felix Decker has hired Malloy to investigate Dr. Tom Brandt’s death. Malloy knows that Decker was somehow involved in Brandt’s murder, but he never expected Decker to ask him to look into it! Decker’s motives ar...
Murder in Chinatown (2007)
The ninth in the Edgar(r) Award-nominated series featuring midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Malloy in turn-of-the-century New York City. Sarah Brandt has made her uneasy way to Chinatown to deliver a baby. There she meets a group of Irish women who, completely alone at Ellis Island, m...
Murder on Sisters' Row (2011)
Saw this series of books recommended by Lane Library employees on the Lane Libraries (Oxford/Hamilton, Ohio) website a couple of years ago. Since then, Victoria Thompson has been my "go-to" author if I need a comfortable evening escape from the stress in my life. Is there nothing sweeter than go...
Murder On Sister's Row: Gaslight Mystery Series, Book 13 (2011)
“Midwife Sarah Brandt braves the dangers of the tenements in nineteenth-century New York to help the impoverished and, with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, bring the guilty that prey on them to justice. Now, the latest novel in the Edgar®-nominated series finds Sarah compelled to save an expecta...
Murder on Lexington Avenue (2010)
A little disappointed that so little time was spent with any of the secondary characters. I was very excited at the start that this would be the Catherine book like the last was so focused on Maeve, but alas it was simply (hopefully) foreshadowing of what will come soon. The mystery itself was ...