Thelma Adams

Inside their picture-perfect homes, the residents of this quiet California suburb are not at all what they seem. As looming Santa Ana winds threaten to turn brushfires into catastrophe; relationships are complicated and the bonds between families, spouses and children are never quite what they seem. What happens next door, beyond the hedges, in the romper room and executive office--it's all as combustible as a quick brushfire on a windy day.

In turn-of-the century New York, a mobster rises-and his favorite sister struggles between loyalty and life itself. How far will she go when he commits murder? After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her brother Abie's hangout under the Williamsburg Bridge, finding Jewish mobster Louis 'Pretty' Amberg in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor. She could flee. Instead, in the dark hours of that October 1935 night before the dawn of Murder, Incorporated,...