The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter
Date
2014-09
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Angry Robot Books
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Peer reviewed
Abstract
Elizabeth Barnabus is a consulting detective. More accurately, she is a consulting detective when disguised as her brother, the two of them long on the run from a family debt. Hired to find a missing aristocrat, Elizabeth and her brother run afoul of both nations of the divided England, including the all-powerful Patent Office, which manages the careful detente between the countries.
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Philip K Dick Award finalist. East Midlands Book of the Year shortlist.
“Rod Duncan’s The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter is a magic box pulsating with energy. Compulsive reading from the get-go, the blend of steampunk alternate history wrapped in the enigma of a chase makes for first-rate entertainment in this finely crafted novel.”
– Graham Joyce, author of Year of the Ladybird
Keywords
Alternate History, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
Citation
Duncan, R. (2014) The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter, Angry Robot Books, Nottingham.