Lyndsay Faye
American author of historical and crime fiction, known for Sherlock Holmes pastiches and novels such as Dust and Shadow, The Gods of Gotham, Jane Steele, and Time's Convert.
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1. The Gods Of Gotham
In 1840s New York a driven officer in the city’s fledgling police force is drawn into a brutal murder investigation that peels back the veneer of order to reveal violent street gangs, corrosive political machines and fierce anti-immigrant sentiment. Chasing clues through tenements, docks and saloons, he must navigate corrupt officials, fragile alliances and his own turbulent past as the case exposes the social and moral costs of a metropolis on the brink of modernity. The story blends a taut mystery with vivid period detail to examine justice, identity and the darker forces shaping a city.
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