The Gods of Gotham
Book description
'Spectacular' Gillian Flynn. GODS OF GOTHAM is the fantastic first novel in Lyndsay Faye's Edgar Award-nominated series, for fans of Andrew Taylor and Antonia Hodgson's The Devil in the Marshalsea.
August 1845 in New York; enter the dark, unforgiving city underworld of the legendary Five Points...
After a fire decimates…
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Disfigured and jobless after a fire, Timothy Wilde takes a job with the newly formed NYPD. He is assigned to the Sixth Ward, right on the border of the Five Points, a ward notorious for the desperately poor who live there and the rampant crime. One night he finds a young girl running through the street in a nightgown soaked with blood. She tells an unbelievable story of bodies buried in a nearby woods. Wilde investigates and soon finds himself a target of the city’s wealthy, several of whom are guilty of the most heinous of crimes but feel entitled…
From Eleanor's list on historical mysteries with a dash of social commentary.
The Gods of Gotham is a richly layered mystery set in 1845 New York City, where Timothy Wilde, as a member of the recently established police department, searches for a serial killer. The prose is sumptuous and casts you back into the time period as if an actual time traveler. Faye develops a gripping tale set amidst a real place, as well as people and events that fascinated me. It is a combination of history and mystery that blends two of my loves and kept me rapt into the pages.
From Matt's list on where history and mystery merge.
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