The year the height of the Potato Famine in Ireland sends many Irish people to New York the city gets it's first police force and one of these men is Timothy Wilde. Scarred by an accident his curiosity forces him to look deeper into things and basically to become the first detective. He's both help...
I have to say I was a little uneasy after reading some of the one and two star reviews for this book before cracking it open, but I was very surprised when I couldn't put the book down from the start. The background and setting are well researched and beautifully, in the most horrifying way, describ...
The Gods of Gotham was an impulse audio read from my trusty library, and it was definitely worth the read. The narrator really took this book where it needed to go. His voices were subtly different for each character. He endows Timothy with the integral mix of hardened cynic and stubborn idealist wh...
I first heard about Lyndsay Faye at the Theakston's Crime Festival when she featured on one of the panels. Thought that her books sounded good so bought this one and WOW it doesn't disappoint.Very atmospheric, you could almost smell and hear 1840s New York in a cracking storyline. I thought I had gu...
It's really a three star book, but I enjoyed listening to it more than I was irritated by the cliches. Plus she writes good dialogue, and who wouldn't want to be on the ground floor with the first New York police detective.
This is the story of Timothy Wilde, a former bartender who comes to serve on the brand-new NYPD, and his efforts to solve the apparent murders of several child prostitutes. Along the way, Faye weaves in public health issues of the day (set in 1845), prejudice against Irish immigrants to NYC, comment...
Although not the Batman novel I momentarily hoped it might be when we first received this into stock(!) this is an absolutely brilliant historical mystery novel that I fell utterly in love with.Set during the creation of New York's police force in the mid nineteenth century, this is the first in a s...
This is quite likely to be the most enjoyable read I have had in quite some time. A brilliantly thought of plot with the perfect amount of factual happenings and completely fictional and a bunch of well-rounded characters that all went through consistent development throughout the book secures this ...
This is engaging from page one. You feel like you are in NYC, at the middle of the 19th Century. NYC has just formed a police force, due to rampant crime. There is filth and vermin and fires - great to have recently read [b:Triangle: The Fire That Changed America|108305|Triangle The Fire That Chang...
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