Today I am a host for the Blog Tour of The Thirteenth Gate by Kat Ross. This Blog Tour is coordinated by Xpresso Book Tours.
PUBLISHER: Acorn
DATE PUBLISHED: 26th June 2017
PAGES: 350
BLURB:
Winter 1888. At a private asylum in the English countryside, a man suspected of being Jack the Ripper kills an orderly and flees into the rain-soaked night. His distraught keepers summon the Lady Vivienne Cumberland—who’s interviewed their patient and isn’t sure he’s a man at all. An enigmatic woman who guards her own secrets closely, Lady Vivienne knows a creature from the underworld when she sees one. And he’s the most dangerous she’s ever encountered.
As Jack rampages through London, this time targeting rare book collectors, Lady Vivienne begins to suspect what he’s looking for. And if he finds it, the doors to purgatory will be thrown wide open…
Across the Atlantic, an archaeologist is brutally murdered after a Christmas Eve gala at the American Museum of Natural History. Certain peculiar aspects of the crime attract the interest of the Society for Psychical Research and its newest investigator, Harrison Fearing Pell. Is Dr. Julius Sabelline’s death related to his recent dig in Alexandria? Or is the motive something darker?
As Harry uncovers troubling connections to a serial murder case she’d believed was definitively solved, two mysteries converge amid the grit and glamor of Gilded Age New York. Harry and Lady Vivienne must join forces to stop an ancient evil. The key is something called the Thirteenth Gate. But where is it? And more importantly, who will find it first?
REVIEW:
A complex Victorian mystery with Jack the Ripper elements, what more could you want? This was amazing. There is a slow build as all the plot points are put into play, but once it is up and running it was excellent. A mixture of historical fiction and fantasy lent to a novel I just could not put down. A fantastic mystery that tied everything together slowly and methodically that left me hooked on every page. There was some romance but the mystery was the main course of this meal. Amazing blend of fantasy and historical fiction with a solid mystery element.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kat Ross worked as a journalist at the United Nations for ten years before happily falling back into what she likes best: making stuff up. She lives in Westchester with her kid and a few sleepy cats. Kat is also the author of the dystopian thriller Some Fine Day (Skyscape, 2014), about a world where the sea levels have risen sixty meters. She loves magic, monsters and doomsday scenarios. Preferably with mutants.
LINKS:
Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34700323-the-thirteenth-gate?ac=1&from_search=true
Purchase:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071RQ142S/
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-thirteenth-gate-kat-ross/1126618741?ean=2940154422113
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-thirteenth-gate
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-thirteenth-gate/id1250641058?mt=11
GIVEAWAY:
Tour-wide giveaway (US/CAN)
A signed paperback copy of Book #1, The Daemoniac
If you would like to enter this giveaway, click here.
Keep Calm and Read On,
Kati
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