Timothy Wilde Novel The Fatal Flame, Book 3, (Paperback)

from passion4reading

Labour is cheap in New York in 1848, with an influx of Irish immigrants competing against each other to secure permanent employment, and employers without scruples out to profit from desperation. Among this stage of misery and poverty an arsonist targets buildings owned by Alderman Symmes, propri...

from michigantrumpet

Timothy Wilde is a young 'copper star' as policemen in the newly formed 1840's NYPD are called. Throughout this entertaining series, Wilde has been called upon to investigate crimes arising from the social ills of the day. Previous books have delved into child prostitution and kidnapping of free ...

from agarcia85257

The Fatal Flame by Lyndsay Faye returns us to the world of 1840's New York City, Five Points, the birth of the Copper Stars and the graft and corruption of Tammany Hall. Young Copper Star Timothy Wilde must investigate the arson of a decrepit tenement building and the issuing death of two women b...

from lkernagh

Always sad when you know you are reading the final book in a trilogy. Faye continues to astound with her wonderfully atmospheric setting of 1840's New York City. The Wilde brothers continue to have that fabulous sibling tension Faye introduced us to in The Gods of Gotham, as well as the street sl...

from nbmars

This is the concluding volume of three in a historical police detective series that began with The Gods of Gotham and continued with Seven For A Secret. The Fatal Flame picks up two years after the second book, and continues to follow the career of now 30-year-old Timothy Wilde, a member of the r...