Queens defense attorney Angelo Manetti receives a middle-of-the-night phone call when a botched burglary results in the death of four men. When Manetti hangs up he calls Tom Newberry. Meanwhile Manhattan South Homicide detectives Cynthia Newberry and David Alvarez pursue a crazed gunman who shoots down American soldiers as they stand in front of war memorials and pay honor to men lost in combat.

"Stolen Ashes" is the fifth book in a series featuring Tom Newberry and Barry Noonan, former detectives with NYPD's Fugitive Warrant Squad. After catching the madman who killed four Craigslist prostitutes and dumped their bodies on a beach on Long Island's south shore, Tom was appointed chief of the town's twelve-man police department. After four months and one solved murder he gives up the post and returns to the detective agency he opened four years ago. He quickly picks a missing husband case that takes him and Barry to Hudson, NY, a small town thirty miles from the state capital where...

After getting an early morning call from Queens attorney Angelo Manetti, Tom Newberry and his former NYPD partner Barry Noonan head to Riker's Island to question Curtis Moore, an Army veteran of the Vietnam War who is accused of committing a savage murder in Far Rockaway Queens on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, twelve thousand miles away in Westmeath, Ireland, Brendan McCabe, a man who earned his stripes with the IRA, leaves home on his twenty-first birthday to find a new life in Londonderry, but finds he can't escape his IRA past.