Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and sixteen other novels including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
a rollicking thriller with a keen eye for period detail
*Herald Scotland*
A thrilling, old-fashioned tale of intrigue and adventure that
grabs you immediately with a historical timebomb
*Crime Fiction Lover*
"well-researched and well-written historical fiction"
*Crime Review UK*
Zestful, thrilling... a ripping good yarn
*Wall Street Journal*
An outstanding work of historical fiction
*Huntington News*
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