New Mexico – Arizona Book Awards Winner!

It’s 1867 in New York City, and William Muldoon is a local wrestling champion and policeman working the beat in the infamous Five Points.

When a fellow wrestler turns up dead, Muldoon’s foster brother is pinned for the gristly murder. The police captain names Muldoon’s rivals to head the investigation, so Muldoon launches his own unofficial probe to prove his brother’s innocence. After a young debutante is murdered in a similar manner, he must find the connection and catch the perpetrator before others are killed and his brother is hanged for the crime…

“A simple plot and clean prose make for a solid piece of historical fiction . . . A no-nonsense page-turner.”
—Publisher’s Weekly