The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - Hardcover

Dahlquist, G.W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670916471 ISBN 13: 9780670916474

Publisher: Viking, 2007

A Spy. A Killer. An Impostor.

Three extraordinary heroes.

Miss Temple didn’t come to the city for an adventure - she came to find a husband. But when her fiancé Roger Bascombe threw her over for no apparent reason, Miss Temple decided to find out why. Yet following Roger to a masked ball (one with a most sinister purpose) will take Miss Temple very far from the respectable world she has always known ...

Cardinal Chang, so thoroughly disreputable that he has been hired to kill a man, is disconcerted to find his masked target has already been assassinated. No longer able to trust those who hired him (if ever he did), he sets out to find who has beaten him to his quarry - and why ...

Dr Svenson did not ask to be a chaperone to his Prince, but he is loyal all the same, even when the young prince’s debauched appetites put him in the clutches of a cabal of very nasty characters and involve him in a diabolical ‘process’ that has singular effects on the human mind ...

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters is an adventure like no other, set in a city few have travelled to, featuring three heroes you will never ever forget.

Review:

'A Dickens of a plot'
-- Evening Standard

'A gripping gothic adventure'
-- Stella Magazine

'Fantastic . . . I was in seventh heaven . . . Somewhere between
Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard' -- Kate Mosse, author of 'Labyrinth'

`An epic debut thriller steeped in neo-Gothic shadow . . . a
galloping, erotically charged, hyper-fantastical romp . . . Harry Potter
for grownups' Metro -- Metro

`An erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure . . . which defies
its great length to keep the reader on the edge of his seat' -- Daily Mail

`As stupendous as it is stupefying - you become immersed. A
page-turner and a rollicking ride' -- Giles Foden, The Guardian

`Bodice-ripping' -- Elle

`Outrageously good; a gripping gothic rollercoaster. A rip-roaring
read . . . has the feel of a classic in the making' -- Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

`Think of `The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' . . . apply the
production values of `Buffy the Vampire Slayer' . . . Literally a ripping
yarn' -- thelondonpaper

`Wilkie Collins on acid' -- New Statesman

Synopsis:

A spy, a killer, and an impostor - this book features three extraordinary heroes. Miss Temple didn't come to the city for an adventure - she came to find a husband. But when her fiance, Roger Bascombe threw her over for no apparent reason, Miss Temple decided to find out why. Yet, following Roger to a masked ball (one with a most sinister purpose) will take Miss Temple very far from the respectable world she has always known ...Cardinal Chang, so thoroughly disreputable that he has been hired to kill a man, is disconcerted to find his masked target has already been assassinated. No longer able to trust those who hired him (if ever he did), he sets out to find who has beaten him to his quarry - and why ...Dr Svenson did not ask to be a chaperone to his Prince, but he is loyal all the same, even when the young prince's debauched appetites put him in the clutches of a cabal of very nasty characters and involve him in a diabolical 'process' that has singular effects on the human mind ..."The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" is an adventure like no other, set in a city few have travelled to, featuring three heroes you will never ever forget.

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670916471
• ISBN 13: 9780670916474
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 768