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THE GODS OF GOTHAM

2013 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel

Paperback release March 5th!


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“It’s been almost twenty years since Caleb Carr’s bestselling Olde New York crime novel, The Alienist, was published, and I can’t count the number of times since then that someone has asked me if I can recommend a suspense story anything ‘like it.’ Well, New York has inspired lots of terrific thrillers, but I’ve just stumbled on one of the worthiest successors yet. Lyndsay Faye’s novel, The Gods of Gotham.”
 —MAUREEN CORRIGAN, NPR’s Fresh Air


"A wonderful book.  Lyndsay Faye'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.  It's a great read!"
—MICHAEL CONNELLY


In the summer of 1845, following years of passionate political dispute, New York City at long last formed a Police Department.


The potato, a crop that can be trusted to yield reliable nutrition from barren, limited space, had long been the base staple of the Irish tenant farmer.  By the summer of 1845, newspapers worldwide had begun to report anxiously that an infestation called “blight” was laying waste to potato crops throughout Ireland.


These twin events would change the city of New York 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 "police force." 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 girl—a girl not more than ten years old—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.


  


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