Seven for a Secret (A Timothy Wilde Novel Book 2)

<b>One of The <i>Wall Street Journal</i>'s<i> </i>Ten Best Mysteries of the Year<br>&quot;Amazing...This is a series for the ages, it's so spectacular.&quot; - Gillian Flynn, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Gone Girl</i></b><br><br><b>1846: In New York City, slave catching isn't just legal - it's law enforcement.</b><br><br>Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented officer, Timothy Wilde, learns of the gruesome underworld of lies and corruption ruled by the &quot;blackbirders,&quot; who snatch free Northerners of color from their homes, masquerade them as slaves, and sell them South to toil as plantation property.<br><br>When the beautiful and terrified Lucy Adams staggers into Timothy's office to report a robbery and is asked what was stolen, her reply is, &quot;My family.&quot; Their search for her mixed-race sister and son will plunge Timothy and his feral brother, Valentine, into a world where police are complicit and politics savage, and where corpses appear in the most shocking of places ...