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.

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Policeman Jonas Holly must venture into the warped mind of a kidnapper to have any chance of returning abducted children to their families. But will his own personal tragedies get in the way? 

“An enjoyably creepy premise...Bauer’s villain, incidentally, is one of the oddest in detective fiction: what he does with his victims is utterly weird.” —The Guardian