Maiden Lane by Michael Januska

336 Pages
Publisher: Dundurn Press, Dundurn
Release Date: March 16, 2015

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Prohibition, 1920s, Detroit, Canada

A gang of thugs are trying to send a car full of liquor over a frozen lake. The car begins to fall through the ice so one jumps in to get the bottles. Instead, they find the dead body of a man named Jigsaw. They find a key sewn inside his coat but do not know what it goes to. One by one the bootleggers are dying under mysterious circumstances.

There is a suicide when a man jumps out a window of an apartment building on Maiden Lane. The police investigate and believe it is murder since there were other people in the room conducting a séance. Madame Zahra, A Russian medium sees more deaths happening.

The book has a steady pace, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. The story takes place in the 1920s between Detroit and Canada. If you like historical fiction mysteries with bootleggers, you will enjoy reading this book.