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New York 1845: Das neu gegründete Police Department soll für Recht und Ordnung sorgen, denn die Stadt quillt über vor Menschen und immer wieder kommt es zu gewalttätigen Zwischenfällen. Besonders die zerlumpten irischen Einwanderer mit ihrem unbedingten Glauben an den Papst sind für die Einheimischen ein Ärgernis. Da läuft dem jungen Polizisten Timothy Wilde ein kleines irisches Mädchen in die Arme, verstört und nur mit einem blutdurchtränkten Nachthemd bekleidet.

New York, 1846: Seit einem halben Jahr arbeitet Timothy Wilde nun in dem neu gegründeten New York Police Department, als die schöne Blumenverkäuferin Lucy Adams bei ihm erscheint: Ihr kleiner Sohn Jonas und ihre Schwester Delia sind entführt worden. Tim glaubt, inzwischen jede Art von moralischen und seelischen Abgründen zu kennen. Doch als er herausfindet, dass freie schwarze Bürger aus der Stadt New York entführt und als Sklaven in die Südstaaten verkauft werden, ist er erschüttert.

Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive nineteenth-century London.

A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died, and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.

The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and 50,000 dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a Black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-Black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a White woman on the premises. She understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers.

No one in 1840s New York likes fires, but Copper Star Timothy Wilde least of all. So when an arsonist with an agenda begins threatening Alderman Robert Symmes, a corrupt and powerful leader high in the Tammany Hall ranks, Wilde isn't thrilled to be involved. His reservations escalate further when his brother, Valentine, announces that he'll be running against Symmes in the upcoming election, making both himself and Timothy a host of powerful enemies.

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.

It is 1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.... Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he has enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams literally incinerate in a fire devastating downtown Manhattan, he finds himself disfigured, unemployed, and homeless. His older brother obtains Timothy a job in the newly minted NYPD, but he is highly skeptical of this new "police force".

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Timothy Wilde er "kobberstjerne" i New Yorks nydannede politikorps i 1840'erne. Timothy har arbejdet der i et halvt år, da han kommer på sporet af en grusomt brutal bande, der kalder sig for 'Blackbirders'. Banden kidnapper uskyldige, frie sorte new yorkere for at saelge dem som slaver til plantageejere i Sydstaterne. Lucy Adams er ung og smuk og da hun rystet anmelder at hendes søster af blandet race og hendes lille nevø er blevet kidnappet, får hun Timothy sat på sagen.

Vi befinder os i New York i 1845. Byens allerførste politistyrke ser dagens lys og den unge bartender Timothy Wilde bliver ad kringlede veje og meget modvilligt tilknyttet dette nye korps. Han saettes til at patruljere i Gotham, byens farligste slum, i gyderne ved Five Points på det allersydligste Manhattan, hvor de fattige horder af indvandrere myldrer til og slår sig ned. En sen nat finder Timothy på sin runde en tiårige pige, der bogstavelig talt er smurt ind i blod. Hun rabler om barnemord og massegrave oppe i det vilde skovområde nord for 23rd Street. Men kan hun virkelig tale sandt?