Bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, have co-written a historical novel about a prosecutor and a madam who team up to bring down a notorious Mob boss in 1930s New York City. In A Pair of Aces (Penguin Random House/Berkley, 2026), Assistant District Attorney Eunice Carter, Manhattan’s first Black female prosecutor, and Polly Adler, whose high-class brothel has a client list of well-known names, fashion a case against Lucky Luciano, head of New York’s five largest organized crime families. Bridging the enormous divide between them and risking their own lives, Carter and Adler assemble evidence that leads to a sensational trial and guilty conviction. A Pair of Aces is the June 2026 pick of Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Benedict and Murray have also collaborated on the novels The Personal Librarian and The First Ladies. Benedict is a Boston College alumna from the Class of 1990.