Line of Blood: Uncovering a Secret Legacy of Mobsters Money and Murder

When a newspaper article about a murdered mobster from the 1940s is discovered in her grandmothers secret drawer award-winning photographer and author Jana Marcus is launched into a decades-long quest to uncover her familys hidden history and solve a 75-year-old cold-case. But the search is a mere prologue to a far greater puzzle that takes her deep into the origins of her Jewish immigrant roots corruption at the highest levels of New Yorks justice system and a dark underworld of racketeers gamblers and self-made millionaires - all leading to one of the greatest unsolved murders in mob history.From lies and sealed records to mysterious phone calls and revelations her labyrinthine journey examines the complexity of family eerie messages from beyond the grave and the greed that drives men to murder. Accompanied by a retired NYPD detective a crime scene psychic and a revolving door of characters Marcus search culminates in an explosive on-the-ground investigation as she uncovers the shocking secrets of her fathers family and threads together a history not only of her clan but of New York itself.