Dorothy Uhnak: 10 books

Dorothy Uhnak’s no-holds-barred memoir about her life as one of New York’s finest The “original policewoman,” Dorothy Uhnak was the first to write a procedural novel with a female cop as the protagonist. But before she turned her talents to fiction, Uhnak was a detective with the New...

A tough Irish cop. A prostitute. A massive cover-up that stretches to the highest levels of law enforcement . . . and its fatal impact on three generations of a New York police family. Harlem, just before midnight. A New York Police Department cop and his partner pull up in front of a tenement....

There were plenty of witnesses, but none of them called for help In Queens, in the middle of a brightly lit street, a woman is savagely stabbed to death as people watch from their windows. The victim, Anna Grace, was a nurse devoted to helping others. But no one tried to help her on the last...

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Policewoman and Law and Order: A story of a housewife with a secret—and a cop with an obsession. In a peaceful, residential section of Queens, all hell is about to break loose. Kitty Keeler’s children have gone missing. Both she and her estranged...

After surviving an unspeakable crime, a victim identifies a shocking attacker Lynne Jacobi gets the call a few hours before dawn. Model-turned-television celebrity Sanderalee Dawson lies on the kitchen floor of her sumptuous Manhattan apartment, hanging on to life by a tenuous thread. The victim...

In this Edgar Award–winning debut novel, a dedicated cop becomes the ultimate prey when a serial killer gets out on bail It begins when New York Police Department Detective Second-Grade Christie Opara arrests a man on the subway for indecent exposure. Within hours, Murray Rogoff, a burly...

She’s the only one who saw what really happened, but this cop doesn’t plan to play by the rules . . . Detective First-Grade Christie Opara, the newest addition to the district attorney’s Special Investigation Squad, has just gotten her first assignment: to tail her boss’s daughter.   As...

Every crime has its price, but for one woman, the cost may be too high Elena Vargas is a material witness to a homicide, the shooting of a foot soldier in an international mob cartel. But the sultry call girl and sometime-mistress of gang lord Enzo Giardino claims to have seen and heard nothing.   Desperate...

To avenge his child, a New York cop vows to tear his own family apart On the twentieth floor of a half-finished skyscraper, two brothers-in-law stare each other down. One is Vincent Ventura, a made man who fancies himself a real estate mogul. The other is Danny O’Hara, an honest foreman who’s...

On a snowy night in 1935, a decades-old secret begins with a killing Walter Stachiew has powerful arms, matinee-idol looks, and an easy charm that he uses to distract his neighbors in the Bronx from his bad habits, which include a love of liquor and a fondness for teenage boys. When he is found...