Lee Harris Books In Order

Christine Bennett Books In Order

  1. The Good Friday Murder (1992)
  2. The Yom Kippur Murder (1992)
  3. The Christening Day Murder (1993)
  4. The St. Patrick’s Day Murder (1994)
  5. The Christmas Night Murder (1994)
  6. The Thanksgiving Day Murder (1995)
  7. The Passover Murder (1996)
  8. The Valentine’s Day Murder (1996)
  9. The New Year’s Eve Murder (1997)
  10. The Labor Day Murder (1998)
  11. The Father’s Day Murder (1999)
  12. The Mother’s Day Murder (2000)
  13. The April Fools’ Day Murder (2001)
  14. The Happy Birthday Murder (2002)
  15. The Bar Mitzvah Murder (2004)
  16. The Silver Anniversary Murder (2005)
  17. The Cinco de Mayo Murder (2006)

Manhattan Books In Order

  1. Murder in Hell’s Kitchen (2003)
  2. Murder in Alphabet City (2005)
  3. Murder in Greenwich Village (2006)

Anthologies edited

  1. Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #2 (2019)

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Lee Harris Books Overview

The Good Friday Murder

Christine Bennett has left the cloistered world of nuns for the profane world of New York State, where murder and madness are often linked. At a town meeting, Christine volunteers to investigate a forty year old murder case long since closed. Now she’ll move heaven and earth to exonerate a pair of re*tarded savant twins, now senior citizens, of their mother’s murder on Good Friday in 1950.

The Yom Kippur Murder

When ex nun Christine Bennett can’t get into her friend Mr. Herskovitz’s apartment to accompany him to Yom Kippur services, she discovers that he’s been murdered. The police arrest someone almost immediately, but Chris isn’t ready to end her own investigation…

The Christening Day Murder

Former nun Christine Bennett is looking forward to the christening of her friend Maddie’s baby. But when she goes to the church baseme*nt of the town that was flooded out thirty years before, Christine stumbles upon the skeletel remains of a body the grim result of a thirty year old murder. Trying to sort out the sordid puzzle from the past, Christine manages to unravel the dark secets of the once close knit community, and also reveals a killer who’s not afraid to kill again…
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The St. Patrick’s Day Murder

An off duty police officer is shot and ex nun Chris Bennett and her police detective boyfriend find this motiveless murder puzzling. Praying for a break, Chris pursues a killer along strange paths: a pilgrimage that takes her from a suburban convent to a Brooklyn fruit market, and deep into the sacrosanct world of the NYPD and ultimately back to the deadly place where it all began.

The Christmas Night Murder

Henry Lee’s Crime Scene Handbook outlines proven methods to help you collect and process physical evidence correctly, analyze it thoroughly, and understand its relevance to the case involved. It evaluates the newest chemical and instrumental techniques, and covers new areas such as forensic analysis of computers and advanced shooting scene reconstruction methods. This ‘must have’ guide is enhanced with dozens of color photographs, logic trees, check lists, worksheets, case studies, lists of suppliers, and more. Henry Lee has consulted on thousands of criminal cases around the world and is highly sought after to help solve difficult cases. Now he and his co authors share more than 50 years of combined experience in this systematic approach to crime scene processing. It provides the information you need for initial training, to take with you in the field, and to refer to again and again during the course of each investigation. KEY FEATURES: Presents a unique, systematic approach to crime scene processing Covers in detail how to manage a crime scene, collect information, search for, collect, and preserve physical evidence, conduct field tests, and reconstruct a sequence of events Describes how to use the latest chemical and instrumental techniques for each kind of crime scene Outlines common problems and provides clear recommendations for overcoming them Includes logic trees, checklists, and worksheets that help investigators evaluate the evidence in specific types of crimes Presents a unique, systematic approach to crime scene processing Covers in detail how to manage a crime scene, collect information, search for, collect, and preserve physical evidence, conduct field tests, and reconstruct a sequence of events Describes how to use the latest chemical and instrumental techniques for each kind of crime scene Outlines common problems and provides clear recommendations for overcoming them Includes logic trees, checklists, and worksheets that help investigators evaluate the evidence in specific types of crimes

The Thanksgiving Day Murder

A CELEBRATION OF ABUNDANCE BECOMES A DAY OF LOSS. More than a year ago Natalie Gordon went to buy a balloon at the Thanksgiving Day Parade and dissolved into thin air. The police and a private investigator still have no leads. So when Natalie’s despairing husband pleads with ex nun Christine Bennett to help, she can’t say no. Not only are Natalie’s present whereabouts a mystery, but so is her past. Someone has stripped her personnel file in her old office. Even her husband knows strangely little about her. Starting with a cardboard box of Natalie’s belongings a few books, keys, some cosmetics Chris searches for a life someone has tried very hard to erase and finds a cast of characters so chilling that murder seems not only inevitable but likely to happen again…
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The Passover Murder

FINAL QUESTIONS. Until someone killed her, the only mystery about adorable Iris Grodnik was why she had never married. But for fifteen years, her strange disappearance and murder during a Passover seder has remained a troubling piece of family history. So when Iris’s relatives ask ex nun Chris Bennett now the wife of a New York City cop to make one last attempt to learn the truth, she reluctantly consents. Iris’s old friends and suitors have scattered, and Chris soon suspects that some of the relatives are not telling her all they know about Iris’s life and death. Then, in the dusty depths of a hall closet, she finds an old leather purse and her worst forebodings about Iris Grodnik’s haunting murder begin to be fulfilled…
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The Valentine’s Day Murder

THE BIG CHILLWhat really happened that tragic Valentine’s night on Lake Erie? No one knows. Three old buddies reckless Matty, successful Clark, clever Val decided to cap Val’s birthday celebration with a stroll across the frozen lake. They never returned. Matty’s scarf was found snagged on broken ice. After the thaw, only the bodies of Clark and Matty are recovered the latter with a bullet in it. Val remains missing, now a murder suspect. His desperate wife pleads with ex nun investigator Christine Bennett to find him and prove his innocence.A tall order, especially when Chris starts hunting for clues in the lives of these respectable suburbanites and their wives. And when she closes in on a truth that chills her to the bone, she suddenly finds herself skating on very thin ice.

The New Year’s Eve Murder

THE PARTY’S OVEROn December 30, Susan Stark was dropped off in front of her parents’ house. She hasn’t been heard from since. Not a good scenario, especially in New York. Former nun now crime investigator Christine Bennett fears the worst. Armed with only a few phone numbers and a photo of Susan, she steps into the missing girl’s life and meets a Susan that neither her parents nor her boyfriend knew existed…
with strange obsessions and a secret life that may have lured her to a deadly end.

The Labor Day Murder

MURDER BURNS ON FIRE ISLAND

Island old timers are stunned by the shooting death of Blue Harbor’s popular fire chief, followed by the mysterious torching of his house. Rumors soon begin to flare up about the chief’s rumored affairs with a vacationing lady lawyer and a girl half his age.

But when former nun now sleuth Christine Bennett and her police detective husband start asking questions, a thick fog of evasiveness closes in. For this is not the first fire to scorch Blue Harbor. Nor, Chris suspects, is it the first murder as she soon discovers that the passions that turn good people bad run long and deep and deadly…
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The Father’s Day Murder

FRIENDS UNTIL DEATHEvery year, the Morris Avenue Boys chums since childhood gather for a Father’s Day reunion dinner. Now late in middle age, these men can bask in the rewards of honest success. So which of them seizes the opportunity that fateful evening to pull out an ice pick and stab to death the group’s most celebrated member, novelist Arthur Wein?As investigator and former nun Christine Bennett peels back the layers of the past, forty years’ worth of secrets emerge from the shadows and the web of lies, theft, adultery, and blackmail woven by the once innocent Bronx playmates rivals even the darkest plot of the dead man’s novels. But in real life, this flesh and blood villain may never be caught…
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The Mother’s Day Murder

TRUE CONFESSION OR FALSE?Investigator and former nun Christine Bennett is appalled when a young woman claims to be the natural daughter of Sister Joseph, beloved Superior at St. Stephen’s and Chris’s dearest friend. But after the girl is murdered, all the evidence leads the police to believe she was telling the truth and that Sister Joseph is the prime suspect. Can evidence ever lie? Chris prays that it can. But as she frantically searches for the link between the anonymous woman who gave away her newborn two decades ago and a brutal murder this Mother’s Day, it seems only a miracle can save Sister Joseph from a life behind bars.

The April Fools’ Day Murder

A SECOND CHANCE TO DIEFor his favorite charity, the high school drama club, Willard Platt fakes his own murder as an April Fool stunt. But the repeat performance later that day is the real thing. And some, including the next door neighbor, say he deserved it. Investigator and ex nun Christine Bennett is haunted by the sad state of Willard’s survivors. His widow roams the road at night. His son has a troubled marriage and bizarre secret life. Behind this suburban family’s respectable facade, violent passions are seething. For this is not the first tragedy to strike them. Nor will it be the last…
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The Happy Birthday Murder

IT S PARTY TIME FOR A KILLERSuburban sleuth Christine Bennett is moved and intrigued by two poignant mementos treasured by her late Aunt May. The first is a sad little note mourning the death of a young man lost in a Connecticut wood; the other, an obituary honoring a wealthy local manufacturer who committed suicide just after his splendid fiftieth birthday celebration. Why did her aunt never mention these virtually simultaneous tragedies? Chris’s investigative instincts are irresistibly whetted especially by the bizarre discovery that the victims, though strangers, were found wearing each other s sneakers. And as she slices through the layers of the past, she uncovers the horrible truth that murder was just the icing on the cake…
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The Bar Mitzvah Murder

TODAY, I AM A DEAD MANFor suburban sleuth Christine Bennett, the chance to visit the Holy Land is a dream come true. Her best friend Melanie Gross will be in Jerusalem at the same time for the Bar Mitzvah of her very wealthy cousin. Although he’s long past the customary age of thirteen, Gabe is planning a lavish party and is flying family and friends over from the States to celebrate. Not accustomed to traveling, Christine is thrilled to have Melanie along to share the experience. The beauty and mystery of the golden city is overwhelming, and Christine is excited about exploring every part of it until Gabe disappears without a trace, turning her vacation tour into a trail of clues that leads to a cold and cunning killer…
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The Silver Anniversary Murder

A phone call warning Christine Bennett that a body will be found is traced to the apartment of an attractive couple about to celebrate their 25th wedding…
read The Silver Anniversary Murder to find out more!

The Cinco de Mayo Murder

MAYDAY!When Christine Bennett is invited on a sightseeing trip to Arizona, she jumps at the chance for a little adventure. But the excursion reminds her of a former high school classmate, Heinz Gruner, who died twenty years earlier on Cinco de Mayo while hiking Picacho Peak near Tucson. Chris decides to contact Heinz’s mother, who has been wondering all these years how her beloved son, an experienced hiker, plunged to his death. Her one wish is to find out the truth whether it was an accident, as the police report claimed, or murder. So Chris begins sleuthing tracking down anyone and everyone connected to her old classmate. Determined to unravel a mystery, if there is indeed one to unravel, Chris will stop at nothing to uncover the dire secrets that exist about that fateful day in May.

Murder in Hell’s Kitchen

After twenty years of loyal service, Detective Jane Bauer is just two months and one case away from leaving the NYPD for a cushy desk job. Her last assignment: working for a special unit that tackles unsolved crimes. At a crossroads in her personal life, Jane relishes the chance to lose herself in a challenging investigation.

Four years ago, Arlen Quill was found dead in the entryway to his apartment building leaving no clues, no witnesses, and no leads. When Jane decides to interview Quill’s old neighbors, she makes a startling discovery: Every single occupant at the time of the murder subsequently disappeared. Like any seasoned New Yorker, Jane knows that mere homicide isn t enough to drive people from their rent controlled apartments. In Hell s Kitchen, where a cold case suddenly heats up Jane soon finds herself face to face with a killer…
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Murder in Alphabet City

Newly promoted to detective first grade with the NYPD, Jane Bauer, is back to work after a nearly fatal run in with a killer. But while she’s happy to be back on the job, her new assignment another cold case seems to hold little promise of being solved. Eight years ago, Anderson Stratton, a schizophrenic, was found dead of starvation in his apartment. Nothing on the scene indicated foul play, and although he left no note, the death was ultimately ruled a suicide. Stratton s well connected sister, Flavia Constantine, never accepted that conclusion, and has insisted that the case be reopened. But in their investigation, Jane and her team stumble upon another grisly suicide and realize that the two may very well be connected. As her inquiry intensifies, Jane is led to a shocking and horrible truth and once again finds herself on the threshold of death.

Murder in Greenwich Village

Detective Jane Bauer is a most welcome addition to the ranks of fictional cops. Peter RobinsonWhen NYPD detective Jane Bauer and her team check in for their new assignment, they reopen a cold case that’s a real killer. Ten years earlier, police responding to a spate of late night 911 calls from Greenwich Village discovered a young African American undercover cop, Micah Anthony, shot dead on Waverly Place. The killer left no clues, and the murder remains an inscrutable mystery…
except for two things: Anthony had infiltrated a lucrative gun trading operation in the city, and it seemed likely that he knew and trusted the killer. So begins an investigation that leads Jane from Village brownstones to middle class Queens, from wealthy Sutton Place to sinister subway tunnels, as a mastermind of murder resumes operations and every path is mined with menace. Harris knows a lot about cops and a lot about women and she knows how to plot a good mystery. Stephen Greenleaf

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