Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Island Of Tears | 2001 | Troy Soos | Buy |
| 2 | The Gilded Cage | 2002 | Troy Soos | Buy |
| 3 | Burning Bridges | 2004 | Troy Soos | Buy |
| 4 | Streets of Fire | 2008 | Troy Soos | Buy |
The Marshall Webb and Rebecca Davies series by Troy Soos is a four-book historical mystery set in Gilded Age New York City. Marshall Webb is a journalist and Rebecca Davies is a social worker, and together they investigate crimes that touch on the major issues of their era: immigration (Island of Tears), wealth inequality (The Gilded Cage), and urban unrest (Streets of Fire).
Soos, who also wrote the Mickey Rawlings baseball mystery series, brings careful historical research to each book. The titles evoke the turbulence of turn-of-the-century New York, and the partnership between a journalist and a social worker gives the mysteries a progressive sensibility unusual for the period detective genre.