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The Last Nightingale
(2007)(The first book in the Nightingale Detective series)
A novel by Anthony Flacco
San Francisco, 1906. The great West Coast city is a center of industry and excitement - and also, to many, of sin. When the Great Earthquake hits, some believe it is the day of reckoning for the immoral masses.
Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Shane Nightingale is witness to the violent deaths of his adoptive mother and sisters - not from the earthquake, but at the hands of a serial killer. As Shane wanders the city appearing to be just another anonymous orphan, he keeps what he has seen a secret. But when his path crosses that of Sergeant Randall Blackburn, who is in pursuit of the killer, the two become an investigative team that will use both a youth's intuitive gifts and a policeman's new deductive techniques and crime-fighting tools to unmask a vicious murderer whose fury can be as intense as that of Mother Nature herself.
Genre: Mystery
Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Shane Nightingale is witness to the violent deaths of his adoptive mother and sisters - not from the earthquake, but at the hands of a serial killer. As Shane wanders the city appearing to be just another anonymous orphan, he keeps what he has seen a secret. But when his path crosses that of Sergeant Randall Blackburn, who is in pursuit of the killer, the two become an investigative team that will use both a youth's intuitive gifts and a policeman's new deductive techniques and crime-fighting tools to unmask a vicious murderer whose fury can be as intense as that of Mother Nature herself.
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"Set in a world on the edge of Armageddon, this gripping and completely original thriller will raise the hair on the back of your neck." - William Bernhardt
"Atmospheric, chilling and with more twists and turns than crooked Lombard street, The Last Nightingale has it all. I couldn't put it down." - Cara Black
"From its opening pages - when we are plunged headlong into the terrifying chaos of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 - to its riveting climax, The Last Nightingale offers an abundance of those page-turning pleasures readers seek in historical thrillers." - Harold Schechter
"Atmospheric, chilling and with more twists and turns than crooked Lombard street, The Last Nightingale has it all. I couldn't put it down." - Cara Black
"From its opening pages - when we are plunged headlong into the terrifying chaos of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 - to its riveting climax, The Last Nightingale offers an abundance of those page-turning pleasures readers seek in historical thrillers." - Harold Schechter
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