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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Fatal Flamedi Lyndsay Faye
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Appartiene alle SerieTimothy Wilde (3)
Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:The final installment in Lyndsay Faye??s Timothy Wilde series, which Lee Child called ??solid-gold? and Gillian Flynn declared ??spectacular.? No one in 1840s New York likes fires, copper star Timothy Wilde least of all. After a blaze killed his parents and another left him with a terrible scar, he has avoided flames of all kinds. So when a seamstress turned arsonist threatens Robert Symmes, a corrupt tycoon high in the Tammany Hall ranks, Timothy isn??t thrilled that Symmes consults him. His dismay escalates when his audacious and charismatic older brother, Valentine, himself deeply politically entrenched, decides to run against the incumbent, who they suspect is guilty of assault and far darker crimes. Immediately after his brother??s courageous declaration, Timothy finds himself surrounded by powerful enemies who threaten to harm those he cares about most. Meanwhile, the love of Timothy??s life, Mercy Underhill, unexpectedly appears on his doorstep and takes under her wing a starving Irish orphan who may be the key to stopping the combustions threatening the city??if only they can make sense of her cryptic accounts. The closer they come to deciphering her wild tales of witches and angels, however, the closer Timothy comes to the fiery and shocking conclusion that forces him to face everything he fears most. A boisterous and suspenseful book from a master of historical adventure, The Fatal Flame Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (4.16)
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This is the last book of the “Timothy Wilde” series that I enjoyed. I will say I liked the second book more but this one did well for itself. I loved the Author’s writing and with this book she delivered a dynamic and great satisfying conclusion. In this book the author creates a complex and well organized mystery. Her characters are well developed and clarified totally the same in the two books before this one. Faye’s is a master at weaving a rich historical detailed context into the story which takes place in run down New York City suburbs in 1848.
Gender and politics make up the main point in the story. Timothy Wilde was assigned the horrid case of investigating and hunting for an arsonist torching varies properties owned by a dishonest alderman, Richard Symmes. Now Timothy has to face his biggest feat, fire. His parents were killed in a fire when he was young. As the story goes on Faye has written about the mistreatment of immigrants, mostly women, the conditions in the female factory and the exploitation of poor women who had to sell themselves to live.
Faye balances the story elements of the complex plot with skill. (