num_pages: 369
description: Bridie Devine female detective extraordinaire is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick and a peculiar child whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors trading curiosities in this age of discovery.Winding her way through the labyrinthine sooty streets of Victorian London Bridie wont rest until she finds the young girl even if it means unearthing a past that shed rather keep buried. Luckily her search is aided by an enchanting cast of characters including a seven-foot tall housemaid; a melancholic tattoo-covered ghost; and an avuncular apothecary. But secrets abound in this foggy underworld where spectacle is king and nothing is quite what it seems.Blending darkness and light history and folklore Things in Jars is a spellbinding Gothic mystery that collapses the boundary between fact and fairy tale to stunning effect and explores what it means to be human in inhumane times.
language: English
title: Things in Jars
publisher: Atria Books