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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 horridβ and inexplicableβturn: 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 shipβs 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 βnaturalβ they might beβ¦ Tahiti 1769. English sailors arrive on the shores of the French Polynesian paradiseβa 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 deadlierβand it is in the hands of Charles Horton to determine exactly what it is and how it might be stopped
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