
The Devil's Half Mile--A Novel
Justice Flanagan Series, Book 1
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Starred review from April 23, 2018
Journalist Hirsch makes his fiction debut with a superb historical whodunit. In 1799, after four years studying law in Ireland, Justy Flanagan returns to Manhattan in search of the truth about the death of his father, Francis, a stock trader who reportedly hanged himself when Justy was 14. Convinced by new evidence that his father was murdered, Justy wants answers from William Duer, a “reckless speculator” and former ally of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, who was Francis’s business partner before the 1792 financial crisis sent Duer to debtors’ prison. But when Justy goes looking for Duer in Manhattan’s New Gaol, he learns that his quarry is dead, and when he reunites with his uncle Ignatius, a powerful landowner who funded his education, he’s met with skepticism about his theory. Justy persists, nonetheless, and Hirsch effortlessly incorporates the political and economic background of the time into the mystery. Fans of Lyndsay Faye’s Gods of Gotham books will welcome this engrossing look at New York a half-century before that series. Agent: Lisa Gallagher, DeFiore and Co.

Narrator Euan Morton's soft Irish brogue transports listeners to New York City in 1799. Justice Flanagan, newly returned from law training in Dublin and his part in the Irish Rebellion, investigates his father's suicide and digs into an investment scandal. It doesn't help that his uncle, Ignatius Flanagan, known as "The Bull," is an enforcer and his father's business partners are all crooked--up to their necks in a new investing swindle. Morton uses a variety of Irish, British, and Colonial accents to differentiate the characters and softens his voice for Carrie, the lone woman. Justice Flanagan is in everyone's crosshairs--from constables to investors--as he searches for the truth. There's a good deal of graphic violence and murder, which Morton reads with nary a hitch in his hypnotic Irish lilt. M.B.K. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
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