David Liss

When Benjamin Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from the British East India Company, he soon discovers the theft is only the first move in a daring conspiracy....

Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in 18th-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London's gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves....

Wilson Fisk - the so-called Kingpin of Crime - has returned to New York, establishing himself publicly as an altruistic entrepreneur and philanthropist. Spider-Man knows better, but he can't uncover Fisk's scheme, which, if executed, will make the crime lord too big to fail....

Lisbon, 1755: A distinguished-looking gentleman emerges from the bowels of a ship freshly arrived from London, and sets into the city with a singular purpose. This is Sebastian Foxx....

While inquiring into some threatening notes sent to a Church of England priest, Benjamin Weaver is arrested for the murder of a dockworker....

The Whiskey Rebels is a superb rendering of a perilous age and a nation nearly torn apart - and David Liss's most powerful novel yet....

In this richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history....

Thomas's problems are more serious than those of a typical young Victorian gentleman. His elder brother may be sabotaging the family's bank. His childhood friend has died under mysterious circumstances. Far worse, leaves are sprouting on Thomas's skin....

Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances....

Here you'll find stories of strange creatures and strangers humans, treachery and love, murder and monsters....

In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659 - a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day....

No one is more surprised than Lem Altick when it turns out he's actually good at peddling encyclopedias door to door....