Welcome to the Showers of Books Giveaway Hop, hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and One a Day YA.

The idea of the “hop” is that a whole bunch of blogs plan different giveaways, then link up to make it easier for visitors to find and enter them. This hop runs from Friday, April 20, 2012 to Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The winner will be announced on Thursday, April 26, 2012.



For this hop, I’m giving away my advanced reader copy of The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd.

Blurb (from Goodreads):

London, 1850. Charles Maddox had been an up-and-coming officer for the Metropolitan police until a charge of insubordination abruptly ended his career. Now he works alone, struggling to eke out a living by tracking down criminals. Whenever he needs it, he has the help of his great-uncle Maddox, a legendary “thief taker,” a detective as brilliant and intuitive as they come.

On Charles’s latest case, he’ll need all the assistance he can get.

To his shock, Charles has been approached by Edward Tulkinghorn, the shadowy and feared attorney, who offers him a handsome price to do some sleuthing for a client. Powerful financier Sir Julius Cremorne has been receiving threatening letters, and Tulkinghorn wants Charles to—discreetly—find and stop whoever is responsible.

But what starts as a simple, open-and-shut case swiftly escalates into something bigger and much darker. As he cascades toward a collision with an unspeakable truth, Charles can only be aided so far by Maddox. The old man shows signs of forgetfulness and anger, symptoms of an age-related ailment that has yet to be named.

Intricately plotted and intellectually ambitious, The Solitary House is an ingenious novel that does more than spin an enthralling tale: it plumbs the mysteries of the human mind.

This giveaway is now closed.

The rules:
Must be 13 or older to enter
Entries will be accepted until 11:59 pm EDT, April 25, 2012
One entry per person
Contest open to US/Canada
The winner will be notified by email
Winner will be determined by random number generator

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