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From Edgar-nominated author Lyndsay Faye comes the next book in what Gillian Flynn calls a brilliant new mystery series."
Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented officer, Timothy Wilde, thinks himself well versed in his city's dark practicesuntil he learns of the gruesome underworld of lies and corruption ruled by the blackbirders," who snatch free Northerners of color from their homes, masquerade them as slaves, and sell them South to toil as plantation property.
The abolitionist Timothy is horrified by these traders in human flesh. But in 1846, slave catching isn't just legalit's law enforcement.
When the beautiful and terrified Lucy Adams staggers into Timothy's office to report a robbery and is asked what was stolen, her reply is, My family." Their search for her mixed-race sister and son will plunge Timothy and his feral brother, Valentine, into a world where police are complicit and politics savage, and corpses appear in the most shocking of places. Timothy finds himself caught between power and principles, desperate to protect his only brother and to unravel the puzzle before all he cares for is lost.
Genre: Historical Mystery
Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented officer, Timothy Wilde, thinks himself well versed in his city's dark practicesuntil he learns of the gruesome underworld of lies and corruption ruled by the blackbirders," who snatch free Northerners of color from their homes, masquerade them as slaves, and sell them South to toil as plantation property.
The abolitionist Timothy is horrified by these traders in human flesh. But in 1846, slave catching isn't just legalit's law enforcement.
When the beautiful and terrified Lucy Adams staggers into Timothy's office to report a robbery and is asked what was stolen, her reply is, My family." Their search for her mixed-race sister and son will plunge Timothy and his feral brother, Valentine, into a world where police are complicit and politics savage, and corpses appear in the most shocking of places. Timothy finds himself caught between power and principles, desperate to protect his only brother and to unravel the puzzle before all he cares for is lost.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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May 2014 : UK Hardback
Title: Seven For A Secret
Author(s): Lyndsay Faye
ISBN: 1-4448-1948-8 / 978-1-4448-1948-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Ulverscroft Ltd
Availability: Amazon UK
October 2013 : USA Hardback
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Title: Seven for a Secret (Gods of Gotham 2)
Author(s): Lyndsay Faye
ISBN: 0-7553-8678-7 / 978-0-7553-8678-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Headline Review
Availability: Amazon UK
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Title: Seven for a Secret (Gods of Gotham 2)
Author(s): Lyndsay Faye
Publisher: Review
Availability: Amazon UK