A review by joelkarpowitz
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye

4.0

I'm a sucker for historical fiction crime novels (The Alienist, etc.) and The Gods of Gotham ranks up there as both fascinating history of New York in the 1840s (mistrust of Catholic and Irish, the first city police force, the political infighting, etc.) and a pretty good little mystery novel. Faye had me guessing right up to the end, and some of the relationships between several characters didn't fall out the way I expected them to--and that's a good thing. I know there are at least two other books in this series, and I will probably pick them up at some point. Lots of fun.