Triss Stein
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Erica Donato mysteries volume 1
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English
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Brooklyn native and young widow Erica Donato wants to focus on her PhD research. But when her teenage daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope, Brooklyn, home, she and her daughter are both touched and disturbed by the mysterious tragedy. Are the remains more recent than they at first appear?
Chris' dangerous curiosity and Erica's work at a local history museum lead her right back to her neighborhood in its edgy,...
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Erica Donato mysteries volume 2
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English
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A brutally murdered man whom no one believed had an enemy, turns local historians on their heads as century-old letters found written to him by a woman affilated with Tiffany surface; the mausoleum at Green-Wood Cemetery is temporarily off-limits, and Erica Donato, history graduate assigned to catalog the letters in the museum where she's employed, all reveal an unknown and unexpected past.
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Erica Donato mysteries volume 5
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English
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"Erica Donato, PhD, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, is thrilled to meet Louisa Gibbs, a preservation icon, now an octogenarian. Louisa's home abuts against the property of the Jehovah's Witnesses' homebase, nicknamed "The Watchtower." As one of the biggest property holders in Brooklyn Heights, the Jehovah's Witnesses have been developing the neighborhood, slowly taking it over, one house at a time. Louisa is concerned that she's been receiving threats...
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What should be a polite public meeting becomes a battleground over plans to redevelop the once proud Brooklyn Navy Yard. Local residents clamor for their own agenda in redeveloping 300 acres overlooking a sparkling downtown Manhattan, while developers argue and city officials cower. Erica Donato, still writing her PhD dissertation about changes in city neighborhoods, is not surprised at the meeting's anger, but she is shocked to witness the murder...