Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories Kae Tempest In April 2008

In April 2008

and lures them to their deaths

as long as there is one compassionate woman

While the meticulously described action takes place in the city

--Kristine Huntley

Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories Kae Tempest In April 2008From a nobleman's court, to the garden of paradise, to a lantern festival in Tokyo, these stories offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder and obsession. A talented yet spiteful painter is given over to depravity in pursuit of artistic brilliance. In the depths of hell, a robber spies a single spider's thread being lowered towards him. When a body is found in an isolated bamboo grove, a kaleidoscopic account of violence and desire