TY - BOOK AU - Patterson,James AU - DiLallo,Richard TI - The midwife murders SN - 9781538718889 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Grand Central Publishing KW - United States KW - Federal Bureau of Investigation KW - Fiction KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Police Department KW - Women KW - Crimes against KW - Nurses KW - Midwives KW - Kidnapping KW - Adoption KW - Medical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction( KW - Detective and mystery fiction N2 - "To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The feisty single mom teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to solve the case, but the truth is far more twisted than Lucy could ever have imagined"--Publisher ER -