'Dark; strange; thick with mystery and twists Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black.' Leigh Bardugo; Sunday Times bestselling author of Ninth House 'Black is a master at world-building.' The New York Times Book Review _______________________________________________________________________ #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night; a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick; a book she couldn't steal; or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists; magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms; strangle people in their beds; or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily; creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians; they need Charlie. Now; she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes; but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive; she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic; and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns; Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Determined to survive; she's up against a cast of doppelgängers; mercurial billionaires; gloamists; and the people she loves best in the world - all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more. 'I will never forget my first time reading Holly Black . . . Such a beautiful writer.' Daisy Johnson; Man Booker Prize finalist and author of Sisters