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Washington Square Press
January 2014
On Sale: January 14, 2014
Featuring: Charles Horton
432 pages
ISBN: 1476712867
EAN: 9781476712864
Kindle: B00BSBR3LY
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Thriller Police Procedural
A brilliant young police officer discovers a series of
bizarre deaths are connected to the cargo of a research
vessel bound for Kew Gardens in this fantasy-tinged
historical thriller set in early nineteenth-century London. London 1812. On a dull, gray June morning, the Solander, a
ship containing breathtaking plants and natural specimens
brought back from Tahiti for the Royal Gardens at Kew,
slowly pulls into dock under the watchful eyes of London
denizens. The apparently successful expedition soon takes on a horrid—
and inexplicable—turn: the crew of the Solander starts dying
one by one. Thames River Police Chief Charles Horton can
find no signs of murder or suicide to explain the deaths,
and the ship’s surviving crew, which has made a pact to
remain tight-lipped about its voyage, further hampers his
investigation. Meanwhile, one of the specimens begins to
show frightening changes, forcing Horton to wonder just how
“natural” they might be… Tahiti 1769. English sailors arrive on the shores of the
French Polynesian paradise—a place of breathtaking natural
beauty where magic and ancient myths are alive and well. The
island nirvana, however, soon starts to disintegrate as the
explorers devastate the land with disease, death, and war.
But what they carry back with them aboard the Solander fifty
years later is far deadlier—and it is in the hands of
Charles Horton to determine exactly what it is and how it
might be stopped
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