Quicksilver (Penguin USA)

Buch zwei der Looking Glass-Trilogie: Virginia Dean wacht um Mitternacht auf, einen Toten neben sich und ein blutiges Messer in der Hand. Sie kann sich nicht an die Ereignisse des vergangenen Abends erinnern und die dunkle Energie, die aus den Spiegeln im Raum herausströmt, übermannt sie. Sie wird gerettet von einem Mann den sie nur einmal zuvor gesehen hatten - den sie allerdings nicht so schnell vergessen würde. Virginia Dean wakes at midnight beside a dead body, with a bloody knife in her hand and no memory of the evening's events. Dark energy, emanating from the mirrors lining the room, overpowers her senses. With no apparent way in or out, she is rescued żeby a man she has met only once before, but won't soon forget.§Owen Sweetwater inherited his family's talent for hunting the psychical monsters who prey on London's women and children, and his investigation into the deaths of two glass-readers has led him here. The high-society types of the exclusive Arcane Society would consider Virginia an illusionist, a charlatan, even a criminal, but Owen knows better. Virginia's powers are real-and they just might be the key to solving this challenging case.