Book of Night

#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of betrayals, cabals, and a dissolute thief of shadows, in the vein of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make.She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall. Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but getting out isn’t easy. Bartending at a dive, she’s still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that Charlie's shadowless (and possibly soulless) boyfriend has been hiding things from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Determined to survive, she’s up against a cast of doppelgängers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world—all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of humanity's shadows...and worse. "Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists—The Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black. It's a story so believable in its magic, you'll be keeping one eye on your shadow as you turn the pages."—Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House “Heart, soul, and a bit of kink. Holly Black is serving up everything I want in contemporary fantasy—The Book of Night is smart, decadent fun.”—Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize Finalist "Shadows slip through keyholes to pick locks and slide down people's throats to choke them dead. Holly Black keeps the surprises coming, and just when you think you know where she's taking you, she drags you down into the real darkness. A deliciously clever page-turner." —Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times Bestselling author of The Water Knife A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.