title: The PMS Murder (Jaine Austen Mysteries)
author:  Laura Levine 
description: "Arrives at an unexpected and suitably scary ending." --Publishers Weekly
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  # Victoria Thompson
  
  
  
  
  
  # Murder On Astor Place
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Victoria Thompson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Following a routine delivery in a rooming house, turn-of-the-century midwife
  Sarah Brandt discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been murdered
  and, despite the hindrance of the girl's powerful family, joins forces with
  Sergeant Frank Malloy to find the killer before he can strike again.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The first book in the Gaslight Mysteries series, 1999
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _To my agent Nancy Yost, who never stopped_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _believing and who always makes me laugh, even_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _when the news is bad. And to my dear husband_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Jim, who eased the load so I’d have the time and_
  
  
  
  
  
  energy to write this.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **A** T FIRST SARAH THOUGHT THE TINKLING OF THE bell was part of her dream. It
  sounded so sweet and soothing, and she was following 