Nicholas Griffin Libri

Set during a tumultuous year in American history, the narrative intertwines the lives of iconic figures like Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro with the gripping story of Edna Buchanan, a Miami Herald reporter uncovering a wrongful murder and police cover-up. As Captain Marshall Frank investigates amidst rising crime and a city on the brink, Mayor Maurice Ferre faces the fallout from one of the worst race riots and an influx of Cuban refugees. Their struggles reveal a Miami shaped by corruption and drug trafficking, ultimately leading to a transformed city with national implications.

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Against the window a pale hand, a gentle wave that was not a wave at all. A distant female face veiled by the sweep of a curtain. Then stillness. Bendix remained transfixed for a full minute. It was most certainly a woman' Early eighteenth-century London, and two doctors are criss-crossing the boundaries of morality in the heady pursuit of scientific progress. It is a challenge that leads Sir Edmund Calcraft, an eminent and notorious anatomist, and Joseph Bendix, his young ambitious student, into playing a dark game with the lawless side of London. But Bendix's growing passion for a woman he first glimpses in Calcraft's house threatens to end their mutual quest. From gallows to mad houses, from anatomical laboratories to frost fairs set on the frozen Thames, the two men begin to compete in both head and heart... Mixing history, myth, medicine and fiction, THE HOUSE OF SIGHT AND SHADOW is a compelling tale about ambition, deception and the vulnerability of love.

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