The American Boy: A Gothic Mystery

Rating:
Summary: Excellent historical thriller set in Georgian England
Review: This is the first book I have read by this particular author and it prompted me immediately to order several more on completion. A highly intelligent, literate and adult piece of historical fiction with a pleasingly sophisticated plot that is very difficult to put down - also featuring Edgar Allan Poe as the eponymous boy (though crucial to the plot he is not one of the major characters as his father is).

Fully deserves the excellent reviews it received in the UK press, an enaging evocation of time and place and a wonderfully paced thriller.