THE COURTESY OF MONSTERS BY ALAN H. GAEL

The Courtesy of Monsters

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Synopsis

At midnight, a dying woman in a civet coat staggers into novelist Harry Carver’s Westminster flat with a warning: his missing wife has been taken by a man called Mr. Sterling.

Nadia Carver has vanished into the House of the Golden Falcon, a hidden world where London’s wealthy go to escape themselves—and where luxury, addiction, and secrecy are refined into instruments of control. Behind its silk screens stands a criminal empire protected by money, reputation, and the quiet cooperation of respectable people.

As Inspector Malcolm Hale closes in, fearless journalist Helen Brandt and elusive French investigator Jorden Morton follow the trail from Mayfair drawing rooms to Limehouse tunnels, black-water pursuits on the Thames, and private clinics across the Channel. Every discovery reveals a larger machine. Every rescue exposes another door.

Elegant, atmospheric, and relentlessly suspenseful, The Courtesy of Monsters is a modern gothic thriller about the price of looking away—and the dangerous power of those who refuse to stop looking.

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