The Fatal Flame, Lyndsay Faye
The Fatal Flame, Lyndsay Faye
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The Fatal Flame

Author: Lyndsay Faye

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 15 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/12/2015

Synopsis

The final installment in Lyndsay Faye’s Timothy Wilde series, which Lee Child called “solid-gold” and Gillian Flynn declared “spectacular.”
 
No one in 1840s New York likes fires, copper star Timothy Wilde least of all. After a blaze killed his parents and another left him with a terrible scar, he has avoided flames of all kinds. So when a seamstress turned arsonist threatens Robert Symmes, a corrupt tycoon high in the Tammany Hall ranks, Timothy isn’t thrilled that Symmes consults him. His dismay escalates when his audacious and charismatic older brother, Valentine, himself deeply politically entrenched, decides to run against the incumbent, who they suspect is guilty of assault and far darker crimes. Immediately after his brother’s courageous declaration, Timothy finds himself surrounded by powerful enemies who threaten to harm those he cares about most.
            Meanwhile, the love of Timothy’s life, Mercy Underhill, unexpectedly appears on his doorstep and takes under her wing a starving Irish orphan who may be the key to stopping the combustions threatening the city—if only they can make sense of her cryptic accounts. The closer they come to deciphering her wild tales of witches and angels, however, the closer Timothy comes to the fiery and shocking conclusion that forces him to face everything he fears most.
            A boisterous and suspenseful book from a master of historical adventure, The Fatal Flame is a tale for the ages.

About The Author

Lyndsay Faye is the author of the critically acclaimed books Seven for a Secret, Dust and Shadow, and The Gods of Gotham, which was nominated by the Edgar Award for Best Novel. If you were to ask her, she would say she writes hero stories. Faye, a true New Yorker in the sense she was born elsewhere, lives in Manhattan with her husband, Gabriel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christin on April 05, 2015

I got an ARC! A dubious honor when the result was my heart in my throat for the entirety of the 450 pages. I care way too much about too many of these people who put their darling little lives into too much danger. About midway through I was bargaining with my own feelings. Like "ok, Bird can go, Me......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on September 10, 2016

The third installment of the Timothy Wilde series flounders a bit in its execution, and the overall tension in the series seems to continually decline as the stakes feel lower and lower with each new book. The Fatal Flame is as well researched and eloquently written as it's predecessors, but the boo......more

Goodreads review by Matt on March 03, 2015

If The Fatal Flame turns out to be the final installment in the Timothy Wilde series (and I have on good report that it is), Lyndsay Faye has saved the best for last and delivered a dynamic, enormously satisfying conclusion. If you’ve read Gods of Gotham and Seven for a Secret, you’re going to want......more

Goodreads review by Scott on June 03, 2020

All three books in the series are 4*'s. Ms Faye is becoming a favorite.......more

Goodreads review by Aleshanee on February 26, 2016

4.5 Sterne für einen fesselnden Trilogie Abschluss! Zum Inhalt 1848 - Eine Zeit des Umbruchs in der Stadt New York. Seien es die politischen Unstimmigkeiten, dem Aufkommen der Frauenrechtsbewegung oder die katastrophalen Verhältnisse in der Arbeiterklasse. Timothy Wilde gerät natürlich wieder mitten zw......more

Quotes

Praise for The Fatal Flame:

"As always in this series, the research is impeccable and the period ambience dazzling." —The New York Times Book Review

“Lyndsay Faye’s New York trilogy is immersive, compelling, convincing, and yes, thrilling.  Read it today for solid-gold entertainment, but don’t be surprised to see it taught in college tomorrow.” –Lee Child 

"Faye masterfully evokes the turbulence of mid-nineteenth-century New York, with its Tammany Hall politics, burgeoning conflict over abolition, and rising wave of feminism, as Irish girls, fleeing famine, are forced into prostitution or poorly paid labor as seamstresses."  —Booklist Starred Review

"As in her previous books, Faye's diligence in researching the period is manifest, and readers will feel transported back to mid-19th-century Manhattan." --Publisher's Weekly Starred Review

“Faye’s re-creations of mid-19th-century New York [in The Fatal Flame] are rich with exotic sights and smells, as well as delightfully eccentric personalities.” —J. Kingston Pierce for Kirkus


Praise for Lyndsay Faye:

 “[A]tmospheric and exciting . . . [Seven for a Secret] is swift but poignant, full of violent encounters and thrilling escapes.” —The Wall Street Journal
 
“This gripping, beautifully written, chilling, heartbreaking, and exciting novel . . . [Seven for a Secret] is an amazingly rich story, worthy of the word ‘epic’ . . . definitely one of the finest crime novels of the year.” —Mystery Scene
 
“[Gods of Gotham is a] rollicking historical novel . . . a sensational account. . . .”
—The New York Times Book Review
 
“If your concept of paradise is popping in a DVD of Gangs of New York while rereading Caleb Carr’s The Alienist, then put Lyndsay Faye’s The Gods of Gotham on your to-buy list.”
—USA Today

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