Its 1921, and a thirteen-mile fence running the length of Broadway splits the island of Manhattan, separating the prosperous Eastside from the Westsidean overgrown wasteland whose hostility to modern technology gives it the flavor of old New York. Thousands have disappeared here, and the respectable have fled, leaving behind the killers, thieves, poets, painters, drunks, and those too poor or desperate to leave. It is a hellish landscape, and Gilda...

"Akers takes a Manhattan that many readers will be familiar with and twists it into something darkly magical and incredibly compelling. In the latest sequel to the critically acclaimed Jazz Age fantasy series, Gilda Carr, detective of tiny mysteries, finds that on the New York waterfront, there is nothing more deadly than the past. Starting a new life, or so she thought, aboard a stolen yacht, eccentric detective Gilda Carr must elude the authorities...