![]() ![]() In the strangest twist of all, the key to unmasking the Masker may await in an asylum where The Queen of Bedlam reigns and only a man of Matthew’s reason and empathy can unlock her secrets. Who snuffed out the good man’s life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend ‘the Masker,’ adding fuel to a volatile mystery…Īnd when the Masker claims a new victim, hardworking young law clerk Matthew Corbett is lured into a maze of forensic clues and heart pounding investigation that will both test his natural penchant for detection and inflame his hunger for justice. The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. ![]() Told with matchless insight into the human soul.’ Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity and over Matthew’s own uncertain destiny. His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as ‘deeply satisfying… ![]()
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