Bless the Bride

Its place in Molly Murphy

Bless the Bride is book 10 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows The Last Illusion. It is followed by Hush Now, Don't You Cry. See the full Molly Murphy reading order.

Molly Murphy flees Ireland in 1901 after killing a man in self-defense, arrives at Ellis Island with a dead woman's identity papers, and lands in New York City with nothing but nerve and an accidental talent for getting mixed up in murders. She becomes one of the city's only female private investigators, working cases the police won't take from a converted tenement office, while immigrant New York — Tammany Hall corruption, sweatshop labor, Broadway theater, the settlement-house movement — unfolds around her in…