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Seven for a Secret
Amy Einhorn: Putnam. Sept. 2013. 464p. ISBN 9780399158384. $26.95. M
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In the wake of her Edgar-nominated debut mystery, The Gods of Gotham, Faye returns to 1840s New York and to her protagonist, young Timothy Wilde of the newly formed New York City Police Force. Promoted to detective, Tim lends his hand to investigating while trying to keep clear of his brother Val's Tammany Hall politics. Hoping to help a pretty girl, Tim stumbles on to a highly connected ring of slave smugglers, who kidnap escaped slaves and freeborn citizens for a price. It is dangerous to be an abolitionist in a New York as divided as the rest of the country in the years leading up to the Civil War. Tim confronts danger on all sides as he struggles with what is right and what will get him killed.
VERDICT Faye's first novel won popular and critical success with its pairing of early police work and the criminal underworld of 19th-century New York. Her second novel is doubly impressive. Readers of historical and genre fiction will appreciate the twists and turns of this original series.
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