Rezension: Hallie Ephron: “There was an old woman”

Location: The most basic element of any New York story is its address. Hallie Ephron’s “There was an old woman” is a New York suspense story set in an extraordinary outer-borough neighborhood that will stay with readers long after other plot details fade away.

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