CLASS KILLER After making it "big" as a New York journalist, Kay Engels returns to her twentieth high school reunion, hoping to find a good human interest story. So when Terry Campbell, voted Best Looking in Her Class, is found strangled in her h...
MURDER IN SPADES Reporter Kay Engels digs up more than a potential story when archaeologist and close friend Dr. Vera Contas uncovers startling artifacts in the middle of a New York City construction site. Beneath the inner city dirt and -gravel l...
In Brooklyn Bones, a crime of the past comes much too close to home when Erica Donato’s teen-age daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope home. Erica -- young widow, over-age history Ph.D candidate, mother of a t...
A brutally murdered family man without an enemy in the world. A box full of charming letters home, written a century ago by an unknown female worker at the famed Tiffany studios. Historic Green-Wood cemetery, where a decrepit mausoleum with stunning ...
Erica Donato, Brooklyn girl, urban history grad student and single mom, is researching the 1930s when Brownsville was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. She quickly learns that even in rapidly changing Bro...
From the earliest days of the Republic until the administration of LBJ, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was, proudly, both an arsenal of democracy, in FDR's words, and the creator of 70,000 local jobs. In time it became best known as the scary place New Yorke...
Murder strikes the neighborhoods of Brooklyn―the hip, the historic, and the hood The search for a lost portrait of Brooklyn's own genius Walt Whitman sends urban historian Dr. Erica Donato into Brooklyn Heights, a neighborhood of quaint and ...