The Dead Cry Justice
by Rosemary Simpson
Pub Date 30 Nov 2021
Kensington Books, Kensington
Historical Fiction | Mystery & Thrillers
I am reviewing a copy of The Dead Cry Justice through Kensington Books and Netgalley:
In May 1890 NYU Law School finally agrees to admit female law students, Judge MacKenzie’s daughter Prudence weighs her choices carefully. As Prudence ways her concerns among the top is how her decision would affect the Hunter and MacKenzie Investigative Law agency and her professional and personal relationship with the partner who is currently recuperating from a near fatal shooting.
Even more pressing issues come up as a street Urchin, whose act of petty theft inadvertently leads Prudence to a badly beaten girl he is protecting. Fearing for the girl’s life, Prudence rushes her to the Friends Refuge for the Sick Poor, run by the compassionate Charity Sloan. When the boy and girl slip out of their care and run away, Prudence suspects they are fleeing a dangerous predator and is desperate to find them.
Prudence is aided by the photographer and social reformer Jacob Riis and the famous journalist Nellie Bly, Prudence and Geoffrey scour the tenements and brothels of Five Points. Their only clue is a mysterious doll with an odd resemblance to the missing girl. But as the destitute orphans they encounter whisper the nickname of the killer who stalks them—Il diavolo, Prudence and Geoffrey must race against time to find the missing children before their merciless enemies do.
I give The Dead Cry Justice five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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