When two kidnappings and a stabbing occur on her watch in a Manhattan university hospital, a fearless senior midwife teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to investigate rumors that shift from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network.

Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...

The final chapter in the memoir trilogy set in London's East End after WWII, the basis for the hit BBC series. Here is the story of Chummy's courtship and wedding; identical twins Megan'mave, who share a browbeaten husband; and a return toSister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form.

Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.