TY - BOOK AU - Patterson,James AU - DiLallo,Richard TI - The midwife murders SN - 9781787461994 (paperback) U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Arrow Books KW - United States KW - Federal Bureau of Investigation KW - fast KW - Fiction KW - Midwives KW - Kidnapping KW - Investigation KW - Adoption KW - Nurses KW - Women KW - Crimes against KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Manhattan KW - Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) KW - Medical fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft N1 - "A newborn baby taken. A mother left for dead..." -- Cover 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. Rumours 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.."-- ER -