On Harrison’s first day at a new school, his mother, disappears at sea. Harrison must attempt to solve the mystery of her accident, which puts him in conflict with a strange church, a knife-wielding killer, and the Deep Ones–fish-human hybrids that live in the bay. It will take all his resources and an unusual host of allies to defeat the danger and find his mother.
High adventure and dark mystery combine in this sparkling historical romance. A chance encounter plunges Elinor and Lord Ryde into adventure and not a little peril until, finally, they are forced to confront the mystery of what happened on that night, all those years ago…
From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s.
