Hudson's Kill (Justice Flanagan, Bk. 2)

New York in 1803 is rife with tension - political, social, racial, and financial - as the city expands, for whoever knows where the city will build can control it.

When a young girl is found stabbed to death, both Justy Flanagan, a city marshal, and Kerry O'Toole, a schoolteacher, find their way to a reclusive community on the fringes of the growing city, where they uncover a craven political conspiracy bound up with a criminal enterprise stunning in its depravity.