The year was 1977, when everybody smoked in the office, nobody earned a living wage, bosses called their clerks "my girls", and any idiot could get a job with the State of New Jersey. Onto this scene came down-at-heel Trenton divorce detective Nick Magaracz, looking for nine thousand dollars in stolen welfare checks. Solving this case looked like a lead-pipe cinch, until the bodies began to fall.
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Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance fiction prize for The Edge of Ruin, Kate Gallison writes the Emily Daggett Weiss silent movie mysteries under the name of Irene Fleming.
As Kate Gallison she wrote the acclaimed Mother Lavinia Grey murder mystery series about the struggles of a woman priest in the Episcopal church in a small New Jersey town, and another series about Nick Magaracz, a Trenton private detective.
She lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, with her husband and their cat. She is descended from a convicted Salem witch.
