Time of Fog and Fire

Its place in Molly Murphy

Time of Fog and Fire is book 16 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows Away in a Manger. It is followed by The Ghost of Christmas Past. 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…