Murder Between the Lines by Radha Vatsal
Intrepid journalist Kitty Weeks returns in the second book in this acclaimed WW1-era historical mystery series to investigate the death of a boarding school student. When Kitty’s latest assignment for the New York Sentinel Ladies’ Page takes her to Westfield Hall, she expects to find an orderly establishment teaching French and dancing—but there’s more going on at the school than initially meets the eye. Tragedy strikes when a student named Elspeth is found frozen to death in Central Park. The doctors proclaim that the girl’s sleepwalking was the cause, but Kitty isn’t so sure. Determined to uncover the truth, Kitty must investigate a more chilling scenario—a murder that may involve Elspeth’s scientist father and a new invention by a man named Thomas Edison.
I really and truly could not put it down... Radha Vatsal succeeds once again in fleshing out a strong-willed, ambitious, and thoroughly delightful young heroine, who struggles against society’s restrictions on so-called career women, while solving crime—and writing news stories—with aplomb."
—Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times-bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series
My favorite new crime fiction discovery is Radha Vatsal. A Front Page Affair and Murder Between the Lines, which feature lady journalist Kitty Weeks working her society beat in 1910s New York City, are utterly delightful and rich in city history from that time frame without overburdening the reader with research."
—Sarah Weinman, The Crime Lady newsletter #081.
[The] combination of a feisty protagonist with a tumultuous, fast-changing era remains a winning formula.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
Vatsal is an exceptional writer and gifted historian... [She] has successfully recreated the mood, the sights, smells and controversies of New York City in the years leading up to the deployment of American soldiers to fight in the Great War. As the United States enters into the centennial anniversary of America’s involvement in that war, Vatsal’s books allow us to reflect on the small fires that led to the conflagration, and they allow us to recognize that the fight for female equality is not a recent endeavor."
—Falls Church News-Press
