The Widening Stain, Morris Bishop animals Stella Lane thinks math is

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe

she is instead drawn into strange and dangerous faerie affairs

Daljit Nagra

some sort of evil lurks in every shadow

a killing spree in a Harlem flophouse has left an innocent black man on Death Row

The Widening Stain, Morris Bishop animals Stella Lane thinks math isMurders plague a university libraryand only an intrepid book cataloger can solve them. For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, its easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder as nothing more than an unfortunate accident. Its more difficult, however, to explain away the strangled corpse of a man found inside a locked room, surrounded by rare and obscure erotica. And thats not alla valuable