Will I love The Gods of Gotham?

Disfigured and jobless after a fire, Timothy Wilde takes a job with the newly formed NYPD. He is assigned to the Sixth Ward, right on the border of the Five Points, a ward notorious for the desperately poor who live there and the rampant crime. One night he finds a young girl running through the street in a nightgown soaked with blood. She tells an unbelievable story of bodies buried in a nearby woods. Wilde investigates and soon finds himself a target of the city’s wealthy, several of whom are guilty of the most heinous of crimes but feel entitled… show more.

The Gods of Gotham is a richly layered mystery set in 1845 New York City, where Timothy Wilde, as a member of the recently established police department, searches for a serial killer. The prose is sumptuous and casts you back into the time period as if an actual time traveler. Faye develops a gripping tale set amidst a real place, as well as people and events that fascinated me. It is a combination of history and mystery that blends two of my loves and kept me rapt into the pages.