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Book SynopsisUtterly immersive' Spectator
Thrilling' Financial Times
Unlike anything else you will read this year' Daily Express
A classic of alternative history' Observer
A delight' Sunday Telegraph
A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper.
It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. But in this 1922, things are a little different. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on a teeming industrial metropolis, conta
