Twelve guests plus innkeeper, maid, and neighbor Phineas Amalgam (compiler of these tales, according to the title page) make up the company of 15, including one child, Maisie, who is traveling alone. *”Rain pours down and waters rise as a group of travelers, trapped by the weather in an inn above the river Skidwrack, tell stories. Praise for The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book: It’s also available as an audiobook! Sample and purchase it here from Libro.fm! Preorder your signed and personalized copy from McNally Jackson Books (include personalization instructions in the notes field of your online order) and receive a gift from Nagspeake, or order from your personal favorite bookmonger: With cover art by the incomparable Jaime Zollars and interior art by the superb Nicole Wong. But they have only their stories, and one another, to save them. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories-each a different type of folklore-that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended.Īs the rain continues to pour down-an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain-the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood.
Among them are a ship’s captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. The rain hasn’t stopped for a week, and the twelve guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Nothing is what it seems and there’s always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House, from a National Book Award nominee and Edgar Award–winning author.
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