Hide Me Among the Graves

Any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. WithHide Me among the Graves,its possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide,this book transports readers back to mid-nineteenth-century London and features a reformed prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byrons onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A novel that is virtually impossible to pidgeonhole or resist, Hide Me among the Gravesis a taut, gripping, and utterly remarkable literary thrill ride.