TY - BOOK AU - Pintoff,Stefanie TI - In the shadow of Gotham SN - 0312544901 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Minotaur Books KW - Criminologists KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Police KW - New York (State) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Westchester County (N.Y.) KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Mystery fiction N2 - Detective Simon Ziele lost his fianceƩ in the wreck of the General Slocum and shortly thereafter headed to Westchester County to escape the violence of the city. But just a few months into his tenure, he catches the worst homicide of his career: a young woman is brutally murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of a winter afternoon. A day's investigating leads him to Columbia University's noted criminologist, Alistair Sinclair, and one of his subjects, Michael Fromley, who has a history of violent behavior and brutal fantasies. But what would lead him to target Sarah Wingate, a notable mathematics grad student at Columbia? Is it really Michael behind the murder, or is someone else copying his signatures? This is what Simon Ziele must discover, with the help of the brilliant but self-interested Alistair Sinclair, before the killer strikes again ER -