Addleton Heights

New Year’s Eve 1901: Six hundred feet above the Atlantic Ocean, the platform city of Addleton Heights balances on massive, soot-covered metal stilts. A grisly double murder interrupts the party in the floating mansion of the city’s most powerful man, and for reasons unknown, he coerces detective-for-hire T.H. Kipsey into taking the enigmatic case.

[George Wright Padgett](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5827218.George_Wright_Padgett "George Wright Padgett") weaves a cat-and-mouse mystery through a steampunk, alternate-American history that will thrill readers of Cherie Priest's * [Boneshaker](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1137215.Boneshaker "Boneshaker") * and Christopher Beats steam-noir *Magnocracy* series. Join Kip as he races against time to unravel the clues that will thrust him across the city, up to the clouds, and into the depths beneath Addleton Heights.