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  • Written by: Lyndsay Faye
  • Narrated by: Steven Boyer
  • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Seven for a Secret

Written by: Lyndsay Faye
Narrated by: Steven Boyer
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Publisher's Summary

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 practices - until 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 legal - it'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.
©2013 Lyndsay Faye (P)2013 Penguin Audio
Crime Fiction Historical Fiction World Literature
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What the critics say

"New York must have been a helluva town in 1846...Timothy Wilde, who rescued child prostitutes in Lyndsay Faye’s rip-roaring novel The Gods of Gotham, returns." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Atmospheric and exciting." (The Wall Street Journal)

"Memorable lead characters." (The Oregonian)

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Good historical context

I enjoyed the story and the narration. Not the best prose or character development, but entertaining.

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