A Serving of Murder

"A Serving of Murder" transports us a hundred years into the past to solve a diabolical mystery immersing the reader in a story that features an impressive cast of characters and fascinating period detail.  Fans of "The Alienist" will love Charlie Ross's new historical thriller." Marc Mauceri, President, First Run Features "A Serving of Murder" is a Prohibition era murder mystery where greed, ilicit passions and secret perversions swirl.  An Englishman arrives in Baltimore searching for a fabulously valuable painting which is sequestered somewhere in someone's furniture.  He is killed in a downtown restaurant.  The killer uses a strange four-bladed knife and stabs the Englishman before he can gain the treasure he seeks.  Prior to his death, he enlisted others in teh endeavor, now they too are keen to find and profit from the painting's recovery.  Detective Mat Finnley is assigned the case and quickly finds he has a multitude of suspects.  At the auction house wher she works, MJ Bartlett becomes involved in the case as there is an antique desk with a secret compartment going up for auction in five days.  Time is precious as Finnley fears MJ Bartlett's snooping may have placed her on the top of the killer's list.