New York Nocturne ― The Return of Miss Lizzie

The bestselling author of the Joshua Croft series delivers the sparkling debut of a strong and humorous young woman mixed up in the crime scene of old New York

Sixteen-year-old Amanda is spending the summer with her suave and easygoing uncle John at the Dakota Apartments, opposite the green sprawl of New York’s Central Park. When John isn’t doing something mysterious with stocks and bonds, he and Amanda enjoy the very best the Roaring Twenties have to offer. However, in a single brutal night, everything changes. Suddenly, Amanda is alone, far from home, and fighting for her life in a city that has abandoned her.

Fortunately, there’s one person Amanda can trust: Miss Lizzie Borden. Together, the two of them manage to work out a twisted passage toward what might be survival through the narrow streets of nighttime New York.

Walter Satterthwait (b. 1946) is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age, he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues (1979), about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers.

After his second thriller, The Aegean Affair (1982), Satterthwait created his best-known character, Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. Beginning withWall of Glass (1988), Satterthwait wrote five Croft novels, concluding the series with 1996’sAccustomed to the Dark. In between Croft books, he wrote mysteries starring historical figures, includingMiss Lizzie (1989), a novel about Lizzie Borden, and Wilde West (1991), a western mystery starring Oscar Wilde.New York Nocturne (2016) is his most recent novel.