Stefanie Pintoff is an American author of
historical mystery
The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. These works are set in a time period considered historical from the author's perspective, and the central plot involves th ...
novels.
Work
Stefanie Pintoff’s books take place in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
in the early 1900s. Her character Simon Ziele is a police detective who lost his fiancée in a steamship accident, and Alistair Sinclair is a talented and egotistical criminologist. Her work is known for intricate plots and historical details, with a focus on early criminal science.
Her book ''In the Shadow of Gotham'' won the Minotaur/Mystery Writers of America Award for "Best First Crime Novel", the 2010
Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a 2011 Washington Irving Book Award.
The 1904 ''
General Slocum'' disaster played a prominent role in two of her novels: ''In the Shadow of Gotham'' and ''Secret of the White Rose''.
Bibliography
* ''In the Shadow of Gotham'', Minotaur Books, 2009
* ''A Curtain Falls'', Minotaur Books, 2010
* ''Secret of the White Rose'', Minotaur Books, 2011
*''Hostage Taker'', Ballantine Books, 2015
*''City on Edge'', Bantam, 2016
References
External links
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*http://us.macmillan.com/author/stefaniepintoff
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21st-century American novelists
American mystery writers
American women novelists
Living people
Fictional historical detectives
Year of birth missing (living people)
Writers of historical mysteries
Women mystery writers
21st-century American women writers
Women historical novelists