Three Day Town by Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron brings together Deborah Knott and Sigrid Harald, the main characters of her North Carolina and New York series, in Three Day Town.  Deborah and her new husband, Dwight Bryant, are finally going on their honeymoon.  But they're going to New York City in the middle of winter! And they have to deliver a pornographic statuette to a friend.  Well,  the statuette is stolen, someone is murdered, and both crimes land on the desk of Sigrid Harald, NYPD detective.  The plot seems a bit contrived and the writing is less polished than Maron's other books.  I've seen this before with favorite series when the publisher pushes the writer to publish one book a year.  It never works!  Skip this installment and stick to Maron's earlier work!  278 pages.