The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell

"A darkly gorgeous novel of intrigue and secrets... The Maker of Swans asserts the alchemical power of language. O'Donnell's prose is lyric, almost Nabokovian in its ability to encompass the cerebral and the sensual at once." -New York Times
One of Crime Reads' Most Anticipated Books of the Year
"Truly bewitching." -David Mitchell
It is no small matter, after all, to create something-to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle.
In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of...

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