ACurtainFalls

A CURTAIN FALLS ALSO BY STEFANIE PINTOFF In the Shadow of Gotham A CURTAIN FALLS Stefanie Pintoff Minotaur Books New York This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. A CURTAIN FALLS . Copyright © 2010 by Stefanie Pintoff. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.minotaurbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pintoff, Stefanie. A curtain falls / Stefanie Pintoff—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-312-58396-5 1. Police—New York (State)—Fiction. 2. Girls—Crimes against— Fiction. 3. Serial murder investigation—Fiction. I. Title. PS3616.I58C87 2010 813'.6—dc22 2010008708 First Edition: May 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Craig and Maddie, without whom . . . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No book comes into being without the support of many people, each of whom has my sincere thanks. I owe my editor, Kelley Ragland, and her keen eye a great debt. My agent, David Hale Smith, is an in......