Awards

• Winner of BookFest 2023 (United States)
• Winner of BookLife Reviews Editor's Pick 2023 (United States)
• Winner of Firebird Award 2023 (United States)
• Winner of Literary Titan 2023 (United States)

Overview

This highly anticipated debut novel by Robert Brighton is inspired by a true crime ‘murder of the century’ and transports us to Buffalo, New York, set against the backdrop of Gilded Age splendor and excess… Named BookLife “Editor’s Pick” - “… Written with grace and power …” Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age Buffalo, New York, 1901 … a muscular, young city, Queen of the Lakes … The Electric City … where the money spent to build Newport mansions and Park Avenue townhouses is made, plays host to the world’s greatest fair, the Pan-American Exposition and its 8,000,000 guests. Less than a mile from the great spectacle, a web of love, lust, and intrigue is forming among the elite Ashwood Set. But life is never fast enough, or high enough, for the Ashwood Set, who plunge headlong into a deadly whirlpool of official corruption, financial deceit, and infidelity that can only end in disaster. The Unsealing is a gripping, psychological tale of forbidden pleasures and fathomless pain.

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"""The Unsealing…bursts with with fascinating detail, character, [and] incident…Brighton deftly captures the champagne ennui of [a] social scene jolted by scandal…brittle chatter and secret longings building to a murder…written with grace and power, capturing the moment that electricity lit up the world…"" - BookLife Reviews Editor's Pick ""...A skillful storyteller, the author mixes sardonic commentary and well-scripted dialogue.... An addictive page-turner with rich historical details and vivid, flawed characters..."" - Kirkus Reviews ""...exciting, quick-paced, intriguing...with a fantastic atmosphere and strong characters, this is a sensational story that fans of thrillers and well-drawn mysteries will surely enjoy...The Unsealing is a thrilling story that will keep you turning one page after the other from start to finish..."" 5/5 - Literary Titan “…Robert Brighton has written a story that catches the reader’s attention from the opening overture to the last page of the book…intrigue, murder, romance, love lost, ill-gotten gains, blackmail, greed, and guilt…Brighton waltzes these characters throughout the story…this is a must-read…it kept me up at night to finish it…” 5/5 - Readers’ Favorite "

"""...exciting, quick-paced, intriguing...with a fantastic atmosphere and strong characters, this is a sensational story that fans of thrillers and well-drawn mysteries will surely enjoy...The Unsealing is a thrilling story that will keep you turning one page after the other from start to finish..."" 5/5 - Literary Titan ""...A skillful storyteller, the author mixes sardonic commentary and well-scripted dialogue.... An addictive page-turner with rich historical details and vivid, flawed characters..."" - Kirkus Reviews ""...Robert Brighton has written a story that catches the reader's attention from the opening overture to the last page of the book...intrigue, murder, romance, love lost, ill-gotten gains, blackmail, greed, and guilt...Brighton waltzes these characters throughout the story...this is a must-read...it kept me up at night to finish it..."" 5/5 - Readers' Favorite ""The Unsealing...bursts with with fascinating detail, character, [and] incident...Brighton deftly captures the champagne ennui of [a] social scene jolted by scandal...brittle chatter and secret longings building to a murder...written with grace and power, capturing the moment that electricity lit up the world..."" - BookLife Reviews Editor's Pick"

Author Information

Award-winning author Robert Brighton is an authority on the Gilded Age, and a great believer that the Victorian era was anything but stuffy. In his Avenging Angel Detective Agency™ Mysteries, Brighton exposes the turbulence of the era – its passions, dreams, and disasters — against a backdrop of careful research on the places, sights, sounds, and smells of the time. When he is not walking the streets in the footsteps of the Avenging Angels, sniffing out unsolved mysteries, Brighton is a wanderer. He has traveled in more than 50 countries around the world, personally throwing himself into every situation his characters will face — from underground ruins to opium dens — and (so far) living to tell about it. A graduate of the Sorbonne, Paris, Brighton is an avid student of early 20 th Century history and literature, an ardent and relentless investigator, and an admirer of Emily Dickinson and Jim Morrison. He lives in Virginia with his wife and their two cats.

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