Will dazzle seasoned Milford fans and kindle new ones. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. Milford returns to the world of these interlinked novels in The Raconteurs Commonplace Book, the premise of which is giving us serious Canterbury Tales. Several stories of peddlers, choices, crossroads, and arcane clockwork devices point to the mystery, and maps, keys, and music figure prominently. The stories celebrate patterns, numbers, marvelous inventions, puzzles, and possibilities. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories-each a different type of folklore-that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended.Īs the rain continues to pour down-an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain-the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood. Milford’s rich, complex language hints of magic and connection, of interwoven fates and tragedies. Among them are a ship's captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. The Raconteurs Commonplace Book as its meant to be heard, narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross.

Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this standalone mystery set in the world of the bestselling Greenglass House, from the National Book Award nominee and Edgar Award-winning author Kate Milford.

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