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Ex-nun Chris Bennett, now married to NYPD detective Jack Brooks and with a 19-month-old son, Eddie, receives a phone call from one of her ex-students. Janet Stern's grandfather is a suspect in the murder of one of his high school friends, Arthur Wein. A group of nine men had remained friendly since their school days in the Morris Avenue section in the Bronx. The Morris Avenue Boys, a lawyer, two doctors, a teacher, a businessman who had spent some time in jail for embezzlement, a concert violinist and a world famous novelist (Art Wein). There were two other boys in the group: George, who died young, and Fred Beller, who moved out of New York and hasn't shown up for these irregular reunions. Dr. Morty Horowitz, Janet's grandfather, was found in the men's room of the restaurant, next to the body of Art Wein, with the weapon, an ice pick, in his hand. Now Chris must strip back 40 years to find the secrets of the group and why Art was killed. Harris does a credible job in bringing us back to those days before the Cross-Bronx Expressway, now part of I-95 ripped through the neighborhoods during the 1950s, when large apartment buildings, each holding as many as 90 families, faced each other, and kids from these buildings played together in the streets, which now no longer exist. It was a place where the friendships made continue today. She has set herself a formidable task in developing the lives and stories of nine friends and their wives and families, and, for the most part, succeeded.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2003
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