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When a newspaper article about a murdered mobster from the 1940s is discovered in her grandmother's secret drawer, award-winning photographer and author Jana Marcus is launched into a decades-long quest to uncover her family's 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 York's 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 father's family and threads together a history, not only of her clan, but of New York itself.

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Line of Blood is an intriguing, true-life family saga, a story of secrets and crimes hushed up for generations, leading back to the greatest unsolved mob murder in our history. It is both poignant memoir and intriguing murder mystery that you won't be able to pull away from. - Kevin Baker, New York Times bestselling author of Paradise Alley Jana Marcus is a genius storyteller. Like that, I found myself intensely and passionately interested in these people, in Jana, and everyone else she brings to living-breathing-dying life. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough to learn what she had discovered. - Stacy Horn, Author of The Restless Sleep and Damnation Island What a story! Jana Marcus takes us on a wild ride in her fierce and funny attempts to solve a seventy-five-year-old mob-murder case, but at its heart, this is a moving story of a daughter's love for her father. Part true crime, part family memoir, Line of Blood goes all in. - Kathryn Chetkovich, Author of Friendly Fire

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Jana Marcus is the author of two photodocumentary books, In The Shadow Of The Vampire: Reflections from the World of Anne Rice and Transfigurations, which received the Gold Award for Best LGBT Non-Fiction Book of 2012 by the Independent Book Awards of New York. She is a multi-award-winning photographer based in Santa Cruz County. For more information please visit www.janamarcus.com.

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