Dust and Shadow
Title | Dust and Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Lyndsay Faye |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 339 |
Release | 2009-04-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416583300 |
In Dust and Shadow Sherlock Holmes hunts down Jack the Ripper with impeccably accurate historical detail, rooting the Whitechapel investigation in the fledgling days of tabloid journalism and clinical psychology. This astonishing debut explores the terrifying prospect of hunting down one of the world's first serial killers without the advantage of modern forensics or profiling. Sherlock's desire to stop the killer who is terrifying the East End of London is unwavering from the start, and in an effort to do so he hires an "unfortuate" known as Mary Ann Monk, the friend of a fellow streetwalker who was one of the Ripper's earliest victims. However, when Holmes himself is wounded in Whitechapel attempting to catch the villain, and a series of articles in the popular press question his role in the crimes, he must use all his resources in a desperate race to find the man known as "The Knife" before it is too late. Penned as a pastiche by the loyal and courageous Dr. Watson, Dust and Shadow recalls the ideals evinced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most beloved and world-renowned characters, while testing the limits of their strength in a fight to protect the women of London, Scotland Yard, and the peace of the city itself.
Dust and Shadow
Title | Dust and Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Lindsey Pogue |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 394 |
Release | 2017-09-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781638481485 |
Sandstorms. Scandal. Secrets. It's been two centuries since the boom of the Industrial Revolution sent the Victorian world into a devastating climatic shift. Now, chivalry is dead and the frills and frivolities of the romantic era are no more than a fading memory. In Sagebrush Canyon, thirst rules, ignorance is power, and nothing is as it seems. Jo has kept to the safety of her family's farm, desperate to forget the horrific day that took her mother and left Jo battered and broken. But the marshal of Sagebrush is everywhere--he controls everything--and for years Jo has had to stomach the false pleasantries and knowing glint in the eyes of the man who killed her mother. When Jo discovers how deep the marshal's seedy dealings run, she decides that fear will no longer keep her silent. But just when Jo plans to expose him for what he really is, the marshal plays a card of his own-his notoriously scandalous son, Clayton. As Jo and Clayton are thrust together, lines become blurred, truths are revealed, and Jo must decide what she is willing to sacrifice in exchange for retribution. Dust and Shadow is a post-apocalyptic love story and Victorian adventure set in a devastated and forgotten world of the American wild west.
Dust
Title | Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Kara Swanson |
Publisher | Enclave Publishing |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Fairy tales |
ISBN | 9781621841296 |
The truth about Neverland is far more dangerous than a fairy tale... Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real--since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Now Claire's desperate search points to London...and a boy who shouldn't exist. Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to Neverland. Grounded in London and hunted by his own Lost Boys, Peter searches for the last hope of restoring his crumbling island: a lass with magic in her veins. The girl who fears her own destiny is on a collision course with the boy who never wanted to grow up. The truth behind this fairy tale is about to unravel everything Claire thought she knew about Peter Pan--and herself.
Dust and Shadow
Title | Dust and Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Lindsey Pogue |
Publisher | Roar Press LLC |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2017-09-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Thirst rules. Ignorance is power. Nothing is as it seems. Centuries after the boom of the Industrial Revolution, sandstorms ravage the land, chivalry is dead, and the frills and frivolities of the Romantic Era are a distant memory. Marshal Cunningham rules Sagebrush Canyon with lies and an iron fist. But after the horrors he wreaks on Jo’s family, she’ll do everything she can to expose the tyrant he truly is.Just when Jo plans to make her move, the marshal plays a card of his own—his notoriously scandalous son, Clayton. As Jo and Clayton are forced together, painful truths are revealed, lines become blurred, and Jo must decide if she is willing to sacrifice her heart or Sagebrush for retribution. Dust and Shadow is an arranged-marriage Victorian love story and adventure set in the weather-ravaged, forgotten world of the American wild west. This richly imagined story, steeped with courageous, beautifully broken characters is the perfect read for Amy Harmon and Adrienne Young fans. Praise for Dust and Shadow: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Truly AMAZING... submerged within a fascinating world!" ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "I want everyone to read this book!" - Carol Goodreads Addict Reviews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Romance, adventure, sci-fi, mystery...great twists and turns throughout!" - Amazon Reviewer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ " Lindsey Pogue never fails to deliver." - Amazon Reviewer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "The writing itself was stunning - the narrative flowed effortlessly." - Author Unpublished Book Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "The Dystopian genre is not one I would choose to read but I became a fan of the way Lindsey Pogue writes." Forgotten Lands Series: Borne of Sand and Scorn (Prequel Novella free with newsletter subscription) Dust and Shadow Earth and Ember Tide and Tempest Ruined Lands Folklore and Fairy Tale Retellings: City of Ruin (Beauty and the Beast) Sea of Storms (Norse Mythology) Land of Fury (Norse Snow White) www.lindseypogue.com/newsletter Keywords: victorian post-apocalyptic western romance, historical fantasy, steampunk, young adult, new adult, historical fiction, adrienne young, amy harmon, cowboys, cowgirls, industrial revolution, gun slinging, romance ebook, ebook, historical fantasy, casey L bond, child abuse, death and dying, climate change, old west, wild west, American west, Arizona, desert, nineteenth century, adventure romance, action adventure, fantasy series starter, fantasy reads, native american, indigenous, dystopian, Guns & Smoke, the stand, stephen king, western adventure, Victorian western, gaslamp fantasy
The Whole Art of Detection
Title | The Whole Art of Detection PDF eBook |
Author | Lyndsay Faye |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2017-03-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802189369 |
This collection of short mysteries by the international-bestselling author of Dust and Shadow “belongs on the top shelf with the very best of Doyle’s” (Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution). Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, Edgar Award–finalist Lyndsay Faye has masterfully woven these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction—from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine, whose predecessor published the first Sherlock Holmes story in 1892. The best of Faye’s Sherlockian tales, including two new works, are brought together in a collection that spans the character’s career, from self-taught upstart to lauded detective, both before and after he faked his own death over a Swiss waterfall in 1894. In “The Lowther Park Mystery,” the unsociable Holmes is forced to attend a garden party at the request of his politician brother and improvises a bit of theater to foil a conspiracy against the government. “The Adventure of the Thames Tunnel” brings Holmes’s attention to the murder of a jewel thief in the middle of an underground railway passage. With Holmes and Watson encountering all manner of ungrateful relatives, phony psychologists, wronged wives, outright villains, and even a peculiar species of deadly red leech, The Whole Art of Detection is a must-read for any fan of historical crime fiction. “If Lyndsay Faye’s byline weren’t on the cover, readers might deduce that the Sherlock Holmes mysteries in The Whole Art of Detection actually came from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.” —David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Shadow
Title | Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Kara Swanson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-05-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781621841753 |
Peter Pan has crash-landed back on Neverland. But this is not the island he remembers. Desperate to rescue Claire and the fractured Lost Boys, Peter must unravel what truly tore his dreamland apart. But with each step, he is haunted by more of his own broken memories. Not even Pan himself is what he seems. Claire Kenton is chained to a pirate ship, watching the wreckage of Neverland rocked by tempests. When she finally finds her brother, Connor is every bit as shattered as the island. Claire may have pixie dust flowing in her veins--but the light of Neverland is flickering dangerously close to going out forever.
The Dreamt Land
Title | The Dreamt Land PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Arax |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 2020-04-07 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1101910194 |
A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.