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Six Hours in New York is included as a prologue.
Set post-Tithonus, before Two Fathers. A routine murder investigation in Chicago where not everything is as it seems.
Blue Samutra is a fabulous author who also made great dustjackets, so she's a particular favourite of mine. 😉
This is a compelling story with a slightly fragile Scully and protective Mulder sent to Chicago after a rather grisly murder by AD Cassidy, much to AD Kersh's disdain, to lure out a serial killer.
While they're not exactly working undercover, they do have to stake out a nightclub and dress the part, so I've added the undercover tag for the little dress-up scenario which has Mulder quite enraptured. 🙂
Six Hours in New York is an achingly beautiful Maggie Scully perspective of Mulder's arrival at the hospital in NY that really sets the scene of where our agents are at in their personal relationship (0bviously One Son hasn't happened yet though).