I’m pretty sure the canning factory folks are originally from Innsmouth, and I have my suspicions about the museum’s head librarian. Frankly, I got extremely hyped the moment the Tomb of Nephren-ka was namedropped, and even more excited as this turned out not to be just a nod but an inherent part of the world and setting-Whyborne studied at Arkham, and the world is explicitly Lovecraftian, where the creatures from the Mythos exist in the outer planes as we have all feared.
This book is essentially filled with everything I love: Awkward protagonists who exist far too much in their own head, dashing love interests struggling to be dashing after trauma and tragedy in their past, strong female characters, a historical paranormal setting, and Lovecraft. …Which is a strange rating for me to give, but it was basically a 4 on enjoyment but a 3.5 on execution. Impression : 3.75 out of 5, which I’ll round up to 4 on the sites I put it on. Categories : M/M, ghosts/spirits, mystery, eldritchĭescription: Repressed scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne prefers to hide away in his museum office with books in dead languages to avoid any and all attention-and so, when attractive ex-Pinkerton private detective Griffin Flaherty asks for the help of the museum’s ciphers’ specialist to translate a book that his employer thinks might be a clue to a case he’s working on, Whyborne would rather not have anything to do with the gorgeous man-especially since the time is such that his own attraction is illegal, which is rather dangerous when the man he’s attracted to is a detective! But despite his misgivings, the two are drawn very close together on the case, which goes deeper than a mere murder and into realms of necromancy and Lovecraftian horror.
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