BROOKLYN KNIGHT

A museum curator and his intern battle supernatural thieves in this fast-paced urban-fantasy mystery.

Known for his supernatural-detective stories, Henderson (The Sleep That Rescues, 2009, etc.) plays to his strengths in his first novel to feature the adventurous Professor Piers Knight. Curator of the Brooklyn Museum in present-day New York City, Knight is also an expert in paranormal artifacts, including an ancient disc that allows him to fly. A colleague, Dr. Ashur Ungari, calls to say that he has discovered the ancient city of Memak’tori in Syria and needs the Dream Stone, an artifact in the Brooklyn Museum, to decipher some ancient text. After the Dream Stone is nearly stolen by a levitating being and his henchmen, Knight and his new intern, Montana-born Bridget Elkins, find themselves unraveling a paranormal mystery. They uncover a plot that could unleash unspeakable evil on the world.

Henderson delivers an entertaining Indiana Jones–style adventure with snappy dialogue and intriguing characters. As a bonus, he throws in a number of real-life historical tidbits about New York, a city the author clearly loves.