<p><b>'Spectacular' Gillian Flynn. The stunning third novel in the Edgar Award-nominated series, for fans of Andrew Taylor and Antonia Hodgson's <i>The Devil in the Marshalsea.</i> </b></p><p><b> </b><b></b></p><p> <b>A scarred barman turned copper star, the birth of the NYPD, gangs, murder, brothels and bedlam in the dark underworld of nineteenth-century New York.</b> </p><p> </p><p> <i>Timothy Wilde</i> - copper star, tough with a warm heart, learning his craft as a detective.</p><p> <i>Valentine Wilde</i> - Timothy's gregarious, glamorous, depraved rogue of a brother.</p><p> <i>Mercy Underhill</i> - The intelligent, creative but unstable love of Timothy's life.</p><p> <i>Silky Marsh</i> - The beautiful brothel owner whose scheming knows no bounds.</p><p> <b></b></p><p> Against the gritty backdrop of the notorious Five Points in 1848, Timothy Wilde is drawn yet again into a disturbing mystery, leading him to the heart of the Bowery girls, the original 'factory girls' in downtown Manhattan. </p><p> </p><p> Someone is starting fires on the streets of New York and Timothy has to unravel a knot of revenge, murder and blackmail if he's to find out who is behind it all and stop them before the whole city goes up in flames...</p>