{"title":"Lyndsay Faye","description":"Lyndsay Faye is the author of the critically acclaimed Dust and Shadow and is featured in The Best American Mystery Stories 2010. Faye, a true New Yorker in the sense that she was born elsewhere, lives in Manhattan with her husband, Gabriel.","products":[{"product_id":"the-gods-of-gotham-paperback","title":"The Gods of Gotham - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly'\u003c\/i\u003es\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Mystery\/Thrillers of the Year\u003cbr\u003e One of \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews' \u003c\/i\u003eTen Best Crime Novels of the Year\u003cbr\u003e One of Gillian Flynn's \"Recommendations for the Season\" on \u003ci\u003eToday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Edgar(R) Award Nominee for Best Novel\u003cbr\u003e ALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams are destroyed by a fire that devastates downtown Manhattan, he is left with little choice but to accept a job in the newly minted New York City Police Department. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Returning exhausted from his rounds one night, Tim collides with a girl no more than ten years old... covered in blood. She claims that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of Twenty-Third Street. Timothy isn't sure whether to believe her, but as the image of a brutal killer is slowly revealed and anti-Irish rage infects the city, the reluctant copper star is engaged in a battle that may cost him everything...","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103740432607,"sku":"9780425261255","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6HDIp5C7TM9780425261255.webp?v=1781097540"},{"product_id":"the-paragon-hotel-paperback","title":"The Paragon Hotel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe year is 1921, and \"Nobody\" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon \"family\" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. To untangle the web of lies and misdeeds around her, Alice will have to answer for her own past, too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA richly imagined novel starring two indomitable heroines, \u003ci\u003eThe Paragon Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e at once plumbs the darkest parts of America's past and the most redemptive facets of humanity. From international-bestselling, multi-award-nominated writer Lyndsay Faye, it's a masterwork of historical suspense.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104783143135,"sku":"9780735210776","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K79VQoQO7N9780735210776.webp?v=1781111310"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lyndsay-faye.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}