The Brotherhood of FiveA stunning new crime novel from this award winning writer The Island of Thanet, 1808. One man is pushed into a kiln of molten metal beneath the looming shadow of the Shot Tower, and another is dug up from the sandy bay beyond. Who they were, and why they died so strangely, is no ordinary mystery, and Missing Persons Finder Whilbert Stroop has a hard time finding answers. On arrival in this marshy, coastal corner of Kent, on the very edge of England,

Word soon got out about the fun-house mummy about whom so little was known that the autopsy took on the character of an archaeological dig

Then John Brown is hired at the resort

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Rio is a run-of-the-mill seven-year-old orphan from the slums who serves as a lookout for a local gang

with illustrations by Alessandro Valdrighi and Edu Rubio

Besides a keen focus on information technology

As one day blurs into the next Lance finds himself drifting farther from home and closer to a girl who makes him feel a way he's never felt before-like himself

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And when Sophie's estranged father arrives in town and starts causing trouble

the authors argue for a nuanced approach

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and contains accessible storylines in a familiar setting with science fiction themes