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Summary
Summary
Now officially working for the Secret Intelligence Service, Kim Tavistock is back to solve another mystery--this time a serial killer with deep Nazi ties--in the sequel to At the Table of Wolves .
Summer, 1936. In England, an assassin is loose. Someone is killing young people who possess Talents. As terror overtakes Britain, Kim Tavistock, now officially employed by England's Secret Intelligence Service, is sent on her first mission: to the remote Sulcliffe Castle in Wales, to use her cover as a journalist to infiltrate a spiritualist cult that may have ties to the murders. Meanwhile, Kim's father, trained spy Julian Tavistock runs his own parallel investigation--and discovers the terrifying Nazi plot behind the serial killings.
Cut off from civilization, Sulcliffe Castle is perched on a forbidding headland above a circle of standing stones only visible at low tide. There, Kim shadows a ruthless baroness and her enigmatic son, plying her skills of deception and hearing the truths people most wish to hide. But as her cover disguise unravels, Kim learns that the serial killer is closing in on a person she has grown to love. Now, Kim must race against the clock not just to prevent the final ritual killing--but to turn the tide of the looming war.
Author Notes
Kay Kenyon is the author of fourteen science fiction and fantasy novels as well as numerous short stories. Her work has been shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick and the John W. Campbell Memorial Awards, the Endeavour Award, and twice for the American Library Association Reading List Awards. Her series The Entire and the Rose was hailed by The Washington Post as "a splendid fantasy quest as compelling as anything by Stephen R. Donaldson, Philip Jose Farmer, or yes, J.R.R. Tolkien." Her novels include Bright of the Sky , A World Too Near , City Without End , Prince of Storms , Maximum Ice (a 2002 Philip K. Dick Award nominee), and The Braided World . Bright of the Sky was among Publishers Weekly 's top 150 books of 2007. She is a founding member of the Write on the River conference in Wenatchee, Washington, where she lives with her husband.
Reviews (2)
Kirkus Review
Set in pre-World War II Europe and seamlessly blending together elements of paranormal fantasy and historical mystery, the second installment in Kenyon's Dark Talents saga featuring British Secret Intelligence Service agent Kim Tavistock (At the Table of Wolves, 2017) pits the intrepid journalist-turned-operative against a serial killer with ties to Hitler's Nazi regime.Charged with tracking down the person (or persons) who is ritualistically murdering young people with psychic talents all over Britain, Tavistockposing as a writer for the London Registerinvestigates a possible connection between the brutal killings and a Nazi-supporting baroness and her adult son living in a seaside castle in Wales. The sickly baroness, named Dorothea Coslettwho heads an esoteric group called Ancient Lightwelcomes Tavistock, who is allegedly researching an article on spiritualism, to the remote Sulcliffe Castle, perched high on a cliff overlooking an ancient sea henge visible only at low tide. Tavistock finds a possible suspect in the baroness's son, who is attempting to come into his own (nonexistent) psychic powers. As Tavistock closes in on the killer, her father, Julian, who works as a case officer at SIS, pursues his own investigation into a similar killing in Poland by attempting to identify a mysterious Dutchman with "a crooked light in his eyes" and a penchant for restoring antique dolls. Both plot threads eventually intertwine with unforeseen results. The power of this narrative is in Kenyon's meticulously described portrayal of 1936 Europe and her deep character developmenteven peripheral characters like Martin Lister, a boy with psychic abilities, and Lloyd Nichols , a failed beat writer, are three-dimensional and fully realized. Brisk pacing, nonstop action, dark atmospherics, and an undeniably endearing heroine make this effortlessly readable.Paranormal fantasy and historical fiction fans alike should find Kenyon's saga featuring assassins, spies, and secret agents to be supremely entertaining. A unique concept that is superbly executed. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
It's 1936, and war is brewing in Europe in Kenyon's second Dark Talents novel (after At the Table of Wolves, 2017). Kim Tavistock, a young agent in England's Secret Intelligence Service, is intent on investigating the murders of other people with Talents as her first official mission. Kim is one of many who developed a meta-ability, or Talent, largely uncontrollable, after the Great War. In her case, people are inclined to overshare their deepest secrets when talking with her. Partially because of her ability, she has a rather tentative relationship with her father, Julian, thinking him to be a Nazi sympathizer. He is in fact also a spy, several rungs up the ladder in the SIS from her position, playing up the role of sympathizer in support of the English government. With a Talent that already makes close friendships difficult, Kim is coming to understand more about Talents and the difficulties that life as a spy will add to her interpersonal relationships. Unexpected twists make this a great read.--Moritz, Frances Copyright 2018 Booklist