Synopses & Reviews
1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.
Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, saving every dollar and shilling in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams literally incinerate in a fire devastating downtown Manhattan, he finds himself disfigured, unemployed, and homeless. His older brother obtains Timothy a job in the newly minted NYPD, but he is highly skeptical of this untested andquot;police force.andquot; And he is less than thrilled that his new beat is the notoriously down-and-out Sixth Ward-at the border of Five Points, the world's most notorious slum.
One night while returning from his rounds, heartsick and defeated, Timothy runs into a little slip of a girlandmdash;a girl not more than ten years oldandmdash;dashing through the dark in her nightshift . . . covered head to toe in blood.
Timothy knows he should take the girl to the House of Refuge, yet he can't bring himself to abandon her. Instead, he takes her home, where she spins wild stories, claiming that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd Street. Timothy isn't sure whether to believe her or not, but, as the truth unfolds, the reluctant copper star finds himself engaged in a battle for justice that nearly costs him his brother, his romantic obsession, and his own life.
Review
andldquo;The Gods of Gotham is a wonderful book. Lyndsay Fayeandrsquo;s command of historical detail is remarkable, and her knowledge of human character even more so. I bought into this world in the opening pages and never once had the desire to leave. Itandrsquo;s a great read!andrdquo; andmdash;Michael Connelly
Review
andldquo;Lyndsay Faye is a superstar-caliber writer. She confidently and exquisitely re-creates the past while her characters live on with you in the present, the elusive gold standard for a historical novel. The Gods of Gotham is a gift to the genre that readers will surely relish while we wait for Fayeandrsquo;s next one.andrdquo; andmdash;Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of The Dante Club
Review
andldquo;Intriguingly complex yet deliciously smooth, Theand#160;Gods of Gothamand#160;is, in a word, stunning.and#160;The vivid characters and deft use of the historical setting read like the work of an establishedand#160;writer at the top of her (or indeed, his) careerandmdash;that Faye is a newcomer is cause for an exuberance of fireworks, at the mere thought of so many superb novels yet to come.andrdquo; andmdash;Laurie R. King, New York Timesandndash;bestselling author of The God of the Hive and The Beekeeperandrsquo;s Apprentice
Review
Praise for the Edgar® and Agatha Award-nominated Gaslight Mysteries “Tantalizing.”—Catherine Coulter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Backfire
“Victoria Thompson has a knack for putting the reader inside her characters heads and…[brings] the setting vividly to life.”—Kate Kingsbury, author of Mulled Murder
“Victoria Thompson shines…Anne Perry and Caleb Carr fans, rejoice!”—Tamar Myers, national bestselling author of The Witch Doctor's Wife
“Fast-paced…Another Victorian page-turner!”—Robin Paige, national bestselling author of Death on the Lizard
“A fascinating window into a bygone era.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Vividly re-creates the gaslit world of old New York.”—Publishers Weekly
“Gangs of New York, eat your heart out—this book is the real thing.”—Mystery Scene
“Enthralling…Fascinating characters with a story to tell.”—Fresh Fiction
Synopsis
It's no mystery why readers love Victoria Thompson's Edgar Award- nominated series. With the help of a charitable lady of means, midwife Sarah Brandt rescues a young woman and her newborn from the brothel where the mother was forced to prostitute herself. But their success comes at a high price when their benefactor is found murdered.
Though the brothel's madam is immediately considered a suspect, Sarah and Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate, uncovering some unpleasant truths about the victim and her charity-and the woman and child Sarah risked her own life to save.
Synopsis
When facing injustice, the residents of nineteenth-century New York Citys tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. Now, as the Edgar® and Agatha Awardnominated series continues, the two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women
A Gaslight Mystery
Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens his position within his department. While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and his fortune under wraps, hes assigned to a new casefinding a missing young woman for her worried father, Henry Livingston.
It seems the girl had been responding to lonely hearts” ads in the paper for months before she disappeared. Her father thinks that shes eloped with a deceptive stranger, but Malloy fears the worst, knowing that the grifters who place such ads often do much more than simply abscond with their victims. But as Sarah and Malloy delve deeper into a twisted plot targeting the citys single women, its their partnershipboth professional and privatethat winds up in the greatest peril
About the Author
Lyndsay Faye is the author of critically acclaimed Dust and Shadow and is featured in Best American Mystery Stories 2010. Faye, a true New Yorker in the sense that she was born elsewhere, lives in Manhattan with her husband, Gabriel. To learn more about Lyndsay Faye, please visit www.lyndsayfaye.com.