This program includes an author’s note read by the writer.

The follow-up to Murder on Millionaires’ Row, Erin Lindsey’s second historical mystery follows Rose Gallagher as she tracks a killer with shocking abilities through Gilded Age Manhattan.

Rose Gallagher always imagined finding adventure, so her new lease of life like a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. Just a few weeks back, she was just another poor Irish housemaid from Five Factors; now, she’s learning to in regards to a Golden Grave: A Rose Gallagher Mystery shoot a gun and dance the waltz and throw a grown man over her make. Better still, she’s been recruited to the particular branch, at the very top unit focused on cases of a paranormal nature, and which means spending her days alongside the dashing Thomas Wiltshire.

But being a Pinkerton isn’t quite what Rose imagined, rather than everyone welcomes her into the fold. Meanwhile, her previous friends aren’t sure what to make of the new Rose, and even Thomas seems to be having second thoughts about his junior partner. So whenever a chilling fresh case gets there on Rose’s doorstep, she jumps at the chance to demonstrate herself – only to realize that the stakes are higher than she could have dreamed. Six delegates have been murdered at a local political convention, and the authorities have no idea who-or what-is responsible. One thing seems clear: The killer’s next target is a candidate for NEW YORK mayor, one Theodore Roosevelt.

Convinced that something supernatural is definitely afoot, Rose and Thomas must track down the murderer before Roosevelt is certainly removed from the race-permanently. But this killer is certainly unlike any they’ve experienced before, and hunting him down will take them from brownstones to ballrooms to Bowery saloons. Not quite comfortable anywhere, Rose must come to terms with her own transformed place in society-and the fact that some would do anything to see her eliminated from it entirely.