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'Dark strange thick with mystery and twists Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black.' Leigh Bardugo Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House 'If Neil Gaiman channelled Stephen King the result might be this book . . . scintillating prose whiplash twists and a voice of character that demands to be heard from again.' James Rollins New York Times bestseller of The Starless Crown _______________________________________________________________________ #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick a book she couldn't steal or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms strangle people in their beds or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians they need Charlie. Now she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Determined to survive she's up against a cast of doppelgängers mercurial billionaires gloamists and the people she loves best in the world - all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more. 'Holly Black is a master of fantasy with the Midas touch -- there is no story she cannot turn to gold.' V.E. Schwab Sunday Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 'Superb entangling magic and mystery around the gritty horrors of human nature neglectful parenting and the scourge of severe income inequalities . . . Will have you frantically turning pages and finishing in less time than you thought possible. Everything you could want from a modern fantasy.' SFX 'A gripping ride from start to finish. Book of Night invites you to reckon with the shadows of your past.' Olivie Blake Sunday Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six 'A delicious dark adrenaline rush of a book. I'm already dying to see Charlie Hall's next con.' Alix E. Harrow Sunday Times bestselling author of The Once and Future Witches 'Heart soul and a bit of kink -- Book of Night is smart decadent fun.' Kelly Link Pulitzer Prize Finalist 'A dark romp full of danger and shadows with a razor-sharp heroine and vivid magic.' Zoraida Córdova bestselling author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina 'A deliciously clever page-turner.' Paolo Bacigalupi New York Times Bestselling author of The Water Knife 'Book of Night delivers hot sex a breathless plot perfect characters and some of the most gorgeous writing I've read in years sharp as a razor blade clear as a one-way glass.' Ellen Kushner award-winning author of Swordspoint 'Black is a master at world-building.' The New York Times

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