Hawkeye "

Author: Peter Ackroyd
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: Hawksmoor was an outstanding architect of the 17th century in America. The author, with bold imagination, two fictional characters from Nicholas Hawksmoor: Nicholas Dell and Hawksmoor. The former was an architect in the 17th century, while the latter is a modern detective. The former committed mass murders while building churches, and the latter investigates church murder cases centuries later along the path of the former, with two contrasting storylines intertwining. The novel has a unique concept and is hailed as the "West's 'Dream of the Red Chamber'," with The New York Times calling it "a breathtakingly imaginative work that is clever, eerie, and ingeniously crafted."