Perennial New York Times and nationally bestselling author and acclaimed multiple prize-winner Laura Lippman delivers a brilliant novel about a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself.

A young detective who specializes in “tiny mysteries” finds herself at the center of a massive conspiracy in this beguiling historical fantasy set on Manhattan’s Westside—a peculiar and dangerous neighborhood home to strange magic and stranger residents—that blends the vivid atmosphere of Caleb Carr with the imaginative power of Neil Gaiman.

1740 England: A squire's wife is found brutally murdered. Coroner Titus Cragg and his young doctor, Luke Fidelis, are thrown into a world of suspicion and superstition. With no forensic science to aid them, they must rely on their wits to unravel a deadly mystery, facing powerful enemies at every turn.

When an actress friend asks Marian Larch for help after her Broadway theater is robbed, NYPD’s toughest female detective stakes out the Great White Way—and discovers a highly theatrical murder.