At Midnight Comes the Cry
A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery
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4.1 • 18 Ratings
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THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER
"Spencer-Fleming, in her most masterly turn yet, mixes heart-stopping action with deep empathy for her characters." - Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review
New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series
It’s Christmas time in Millers Kill, and Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne - newly resigned from his position as chief of police – plan to enjoy it with their baby boy. On their list: visiting Santa, decorating the tree, and attending the church Christmas pageant. But when a beloved holiday parade is crashed by white supremacists, Clare and Russ find themselves sucked into a parallel world of militias, machinations and murder.
Meanwhile, single mom and officer Hadley Knox has her hands full juggling her kids and her police work. She doesn’t want to worry about her former partner – and sometimes lover – Kevin Flynn, but when he takes leave from the Syracuse PD and disappears, she can’t help her growing panic that something has gone very wrong.
Novice lawyer Joy Zhào is keeping secrets from her superiors at the state Attorney General’s Office. She knows they wouldn’t condone her off-the-books investigation, but she’s convinced a threatening alt-right conspiracy is brewing – and catching the perpetrators could jump start her career.
NYS Forest Ranger Paul Terrance is looking for his uncle, a veteran of the park service gone inexplicably missing. He doesn’t think much of an ex-cop and out-of-town officer showing up in his patch of the woods, but he’s heard the disturbing rumors of dangerous men in the mountains.
In New York Times Julia Spencer-Fleming's latest novel, as Christmas approaches, these five people will discover their suspicions hang on a single twisting thread, leading to the forbidding High Peaks of the Adirondacks. As the December days shorten and the nights grow long, a disparate group of would-be heroes need to unwind a murderous plot before time runs out.
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Croydon, CEO of the Australian bookstore chain QBD Books, reimagines WWII codebreaker Alan Turing as an architect of time travel in his ambitious debut. In the present, British MP Annabelle McIntosh learns that she's Turing's granddaughter. Flash back to 1944, when Turing successfully uses a time machine he's invented called Nautilus to save lives on D-Day, though he remains wary of tampering too much with fate. As the war grinds on, Turing's wife, Joan Clarke, gives up their son David for adoption, and she and Turing establish a set of ethical rules for Nautilus's deployment. After WWII ends and gives way to the Cold War, Turing returns to intelligence work, only to be betrayed by real-life double agent Kim Philby. After Turing's death, Joan guards Nautilus, employing it only to avert catastrophe, while David becomes involved in espionage at great personal sacrifice. Though the shifting timelines lead to some repetition, and the wartime arc receives an outsize share of the page count, Croydon proves himself a clever reinterpreter of history. Flaws aside, this pays tribute to Turing's genius and serves as a thoughtful meditation on power, secrecy, and sacrifice in times of conflict.
