When private eye Eddie Lombardi discovers the body of a young pianist in an abandoned Brooklyn slum in the depths of winter, he vows to find the person who murdered her. But the more he investigates, the more discrepancies he finds between her family's image of her and who she really was. Her father, who rubs Eddie the wrong way from the get-go, makes the job even tougher. Once again, danger and death are par for the course that Eddie's playing.

Stone-Cold in Brooklyn, set in the winter of 1957-58, is the sixth book in the Eddie Lombardi series of mystery novels. This time the case will take him from Midwood to Greenwich Village, and from fashionable Park Slope to the combat zones of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant.