This is an extraordinary novel, all the more interesting because it is set in contemporary Queens, NY. It is a police procedural, as well as an exposition on abusive husbands, their victims and life in a battered women's shelter. Our homicide detective discovers that the husbands of women in the shelter keep winding up dead and decides to go undercover. She is also the daughter of a Planned Parenthood physician murdered by a religious fanatic and is someone with revenge as a high priority. The finale jumps the shark, but on the whole, this is a page- turning very good read.
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