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Midwife Sarah Brandt rushes to Chinatown to deliver a baby and meets a community of Irish women who have married Chinese immigrants. The arrival of a new century does little to ease the prejudice toward mixed‑race children. When the half-Chinese, half-Irish niece of one of the mothers disappears, Brandt realizes that involving the police will not help. She turns to Police Sergeant Malloy, and the pair must navigate the complex social divides of Canal Street to solve a murder that blurs the line between the two worlds.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Victoria Thompson
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