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Hyperion
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
384 pages
ISBN: 1401324231
EAN: 9781401324230
Kindle: B007FSJ98E
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Historical | Fiction Family Life
July 1840: The young Queen Victoria has just entered her
third year on the throne when a major recession brings
London's desperate and destitute into its sweltering
streets. While the city crackles with tension, orphaned
Catherine Sorgeiul stays locked away in her uncle's home, a
peculiar place where death masks adorn the walls and certain
rooms are strictly forbidden. Nineteen years old and haunted
by a dark past, Catherine becomes obsessed with a series of
terrible murders of young girls sweeping the city. Details
of the crimes are especially gruesome—the victims' hair has
been newly plaited and thrust into their mouths, and their
limbs are grotesquely folded behind them, like wounded birds
—and the serial killer is soon nicknamed the Man of Crows. Catherine begins writing stories about the victims—women on
their own and vulnerable in the big city—and gradually the
story of the murderer as well. But she soon realizes that
she has involved herself in a web of betrayal, deceit, and
terror that threatens her and all those around her. A
remarkable fiction debut, The Pleasures of Men is a gripping
and spine-tingling thriller.
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