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Leslie Glass has created her most provocative and spine-tingling work yet with A Clean Kill, with all the characters we’ve come to love, and with the page-turning, heart-thumping action we’ve come to expect from this author. And, in a development we've all been waiting for, April's relationship with Mike takes the next big step.

Manhattan's Upper East Side isn't a neighborhood that NYPD detective April Woo and Precinct Captain Mike Sanchez associate with grisly crimes until Maddy Wilson, the wife of a celebrity chef, is slashed to death in her fashionable townhouse. The obvious suspect is her long-time nanny, a woman whose questionable behavior is matched only by her penchant for lies. Then, Maddy's best friend is murdered. The suspect? The nanny. For April the coincidence is strange, the connection too neat, the motives too tenuous. As the investigation unfolds, so do the victims' privileged secrets. And each one of them cuts with a knife.

Glass grew up in New York City where she worked in the book publishing industry and at New York Magazine. She is the author of more than twelve novels including her most recent, For Love and Money (2004), Over His Dead Body (2003), as well as those in her April Woo series: A Killing Gift (2003), The Silent Bride (2002), Tracking Time (2000), Stealing Time (1999), Judging Time (1998), Loving Time (1996), Hanging Time (1995), and Burning Time (1993).

Glass is also the only author to serve as a trustee of the New York City Police Foundation. Deeply committed to giving back to the world about which she writes, over a decade ago she established the Leslie Glass Foundation to support original research in the fields of Criminal Justice and Mental Health. As Glass fans avidly devour her powerful New York cautionary tales, real life Leslie Glass Fellows at the NYU Social Work, the CUNY Graduate Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The National Center for Victims of Crime, the New York City Police Foundation and other institutions have been working for over a decade to improve the lives of the cops and better understand the societal issues that Glass writes about.

The Foundation has supported a study of gender partnering in NYPD, and pilot programs for underserved and at-risk populations among others. One fellow researched the problems of child soldiers from war devastated countries entering American high schools. A large project involving many fellows brought into focus the plight of Chernobyl victims now living in the New York area and dealing with the lasting trauma of radiation exposure. A ground-breaking study by CUNY graduate students on the impact of higher education in prison was done at Bedford Correctional Facility, the only maximum security prison for women in New York State. A current project explores the resilience of homeless mothers with AIDS.

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