Murder in Greenwich Village: A Manhattan Mystery (Manhattan Mysteries) [Mass Market Paperback]

Lee Harris (Author)

Book Description

Series: Manhattan Mysteries | Publication Date: February 28, 2006

“Detective Jane Bauer is a most welcome addition to the ranks of fictional cops.”
–Peter Robinson

When NYPD detective Jane Bauer and her team check in for their new assignment, they reopen a cold case that’s a real killer. Ten years earlier, police responding to a spate of late-night 911 calls from Greenwich Village discovered a young African American undercover cop, Micah Anthony, shot dead on Waverly Place. The killer left no clues, and the murder remains an inscrutable mystery . . . except for two things: Anthony had infiltrated a lucrative gun-trading operation in the city, and it seemed likely that he knew and trusted the killer.

So begins an investigation that leads Jane from Village brownstones to middle-class Queens, from wealthy Sutton Place to sinister subway tunnels, as a mastermind of murder resumes operations–and every path is mined with menace.

“Harris knows a lot about cops and a lot about women and she knows how to plot a good mystery.”
–Stephen Greenleaf

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About the Author

Lee Harris is the author of the mystery novels featuring ex-nun Christine Bennett, who first appeared in The Good Friday Murder, an Edgar Award nominee that was adapted in 2004 as a TV movie entitled Murder Without Conviction. Harris also writes the Manhattan Mystery series, which debuted with Murder in Hell’s Kitchen and continued with Murder in Alphabet City. In 2001, she received the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for her distinguished contribution to crime writing.

Lee Harris’s e-mail address is [e-mail]. She also has a website that she shares with three other mystery authors, and it can be found at www.NMOMysteries.com.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (February 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345475968
• ISBN-13: 978-0345475961
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read...., August 6, 2006

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Susan "loverofbooks" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder in Greenwich Village: A Manhattan Mystery (Manhattan Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

What can I say? I picked this book up and didn't want to put it down until the very last page!! This third volume in the Jane Bauer series is a terrific police procedural while giving us further insight into our heroine. Not only did I find the story line suspenseful, but greatly appreciated the fact that Ms. Harris left no threads dangling by completing, down to the last character, the cold case that Jane's squad was working. (I have found too many "best-selling authors" ignoring their very own people and plots and appear to be in a rush to the end-NOT IN THIS BOOK).

Jane's loving relationship with Hack receives the exact amount of attention without going overboard (JMHO) and now they have moved to a place where the "moralists" out there will be happier (maybe?). Personally, until I read the prior reviews, I never gave it a thought.

Again, I must thank Ms. Harris for a terrific read and am looking forward to number 4 in this series!!! Susan

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mysterylover,fromdownunder, May 9, 2006

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Arkay (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Murder in Greenwich Village: A Manhattan Mystery (Manhattan Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

I really enjoyed this third book in the Manhattan Mystery series, but then I have always enjoyed Lee Harris's books (admitably some more than others)
I felt that Detective Jane Bauer's relationship with her team has evolved more with each book, this time Sean MacHovec redeemed himself with his Online research and seemed to be less of a sleeze.
In this book there is more background to Jane's longterm romance and Jane's hesitation in committing to Hack. I certainly can't wait for the next episode to see where this leads.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CREEPY CRAWLY SUBWAY TUNNELS, March 4, 2010

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This review is from: Murder in Greenwich Village: A Manhattan Mystery (Manhattan Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

I am sorry to see this series end (Manhattan Mysteries) with only 3 books. This time out Jane Bauer and her Cold Case team are trying to solve the ten-year old case of the murder of an Undercover Policeman. Involved, too, is the theft of Berettas from an armory. This is an exciting book with lots of twists and turns but enjoyable to the end.