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The Family Way: Molly Murphy Mysteries Series, Book 12
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The Family Way, the twelfth entry in Rhys Bowen's bestselling Molly Murphy series, will delight fans and win over newcomers with its elegantly plotted mystery, atmospheric historical detail, and vivid characters.
Molly Murphy—now Molly Sullivan—is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. She's restless and irritable in the enforced idleness of pregnancy and the heat of a New York summer in 1905. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing Irish serving maid, Molly figures it couldn't hurt to at least ask around, despite her promise to Daniel to give up her old career as a detective. On the same day, Molly learns that five babies have been kidnapped in the past month.
Refusing to let Molly help with the kidnapping investigation, Daniel sends her away to spend the summer with his mother. But even in the quiet, leafy suburbs, Molly's own pending motherhood makes her unable to ignore these missing children. What she uncovers will lead her on a terrifying journey through all levels of society, putting her life—and that of her baby—in danger.

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Molly Murphy—now Molly Sullivan—is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. She's restless and irritable in the enforced idleness of pregnancy and the heat of a New York summer in 1905. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing Irish serving maid, Molly figures it couldn't hurt to at least ask around, despite her promise to Daniel to give up her old career as a detective. On the same day, Molly learns that five babies have been kidnapped in the past month.
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      • content: "Molly is sassy, saucy, brave and smart."
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      • content: "Molly Murphy, the plucky star of Rhys Bowen's mystery series...likes to fight for the underdog."
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        Set in 1904, Bowen’s well-paced 12th mystery featuring feisty and endearing Molly Murphy (after 2012’s Hush Now, Don’t You Cry) finds Molly unable to resist taking on a missing persons case, despite her promise to her new husband, NYPD Capt. Daniel Sullivan, to give up detecting now that their first baby is on the way. Molly receives a letter from a woman in Ireland seeking news of her orphaned niece, Maureen O’Byrne, who wrote on arriving in New York City a year earlier that she had secured a job as an under–parlor maid with a Mrs. Mainwaring. The aunt has heard nothing from Maureen since. With the last name of Maureen’s employer her only lead, Molly plunges into a thorough investigation of the maid’s fate. The usual full-blooded characters will keep readers engaged, but series fans may wonder how Molly will juggle sleuthing with increased domestic demands in future installments. Agent: Meg Ruley, the Jane Rotrosen Agency.

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        February 1, 2013
        Neither retirement nor pregnancy can put a good detective out to pasture. Molly Murphy Sullivan has promised her police captain husband, Daniel, that she'll quit investigating and settle down to become a housewife. Restless and uncomfortable in the heat of a New York City summer, she gets a letter addressed to her old agency: A couple from Ireland want her to find their niece Maureen O'Byrne, who worked for the Mainwaring family before she went missing. Surely Daniel won't mind her asking a few innocent questions? But her husband is furious when she witnesses a baby kidnapping--one of the cases he's working--while visiting a domestic agency in search of a maid. He wants her to travel to cooler Westchester, stay with his mother and give up detective work. Daniel would be even more angry if he knew that Molly had gone back to the agency, trying to track down the Mainwarings, and bumped into her younger brother Liam, who's on the run from the English and illegally in the country on business for the Brotherhood, which will do anything to gain independence for Ireland. Molly agrees to go to Westchester when she learns that the Mainwarings live nearby. She asks her two neighbors to come stay at a nearby inn so that she'll have an excuse to get away from her mother-in-law and keep sleuthing, a decision that will put her life in danger. Feisty Molly (Hush Now, Don't You Cry, 2012, etc.) unravels another knotty case while providing insight into life just after the turn of that other century.

        COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        March 1, 2013

        Despite her pregnancy, Molly Murphy Sullivan can't seem to stay away from sleuthing. In this, her 12th entry (after Hush Now, Don't You Cry), she becomes embroiled in the Irish freedom movement of the early 20th century. [See Prepub Alert, 10/08/12.]

        Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        Anthony and Agatha Awardwinning Rhys Bowen's series about Molly Murphy, a bubbly Irish immigrant in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, is now in its thirteenth installment. Molly, who has always had a gift for getting to the bottom of things, established her own private detective agency in New York. Now, though, she is married to a police captain, is named Sullivan rather than Murphy, and is pregnant. When she receives a letter begging for her help in locating a disappeared Irish maidservantand when she subsequently learns that five infants have been kidnapped in the same monthMolly is ready to take action, but her husband ships her off for an enforced rest with her mother. Ah, but Molly is nothing if not dauntless. The ways she finds to keep investigating, and the trouble she lands in as a result of that investigation, will be more than enough to keep series fans satisfied. Others may be puzzled by the (at times) overly simplistic writing here, which gives the book a tone not in keeping with its subject matter.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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Molly Murphy—now Molly Sullivan—is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. She's restless and irritable in the enforced idleness of pregnancy and the heat of a New York summer in 1905. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing Irish serving maid, Molly figures it couldn't hurt to at least ask around, despite her promise to Daniel to give up her old career as a detective. On the same day, Molly learns that five babies have been kidnapped in the past month.
Refusing to let Molly help with the kidnapping investigation, Daniel sends her away to spend the summer with his mother. But even in the quiet, leafy...

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