The Diviners / Libba Bray / 578 pages / Bram Stoker Award Nominee

Something dark and evil has awakened on the streets of New York.  Young Evie O'Neil is drawn into the midst of it because of her unusual power.  She can divine facts about a person while holding an object belonging to them.  This got her in trouble in her small home town, a she revealed unsavory acts of the son of one of the town's wealthy icons.  Her parents banish her to live with her uncle who runs a most unusual museum, until tempers cool.  She is drawn into the investigations of a serial murderer amid the flash and bustle of 1926 New York with its speakeasies, Ziegfield girls, and rakish pickpockets, and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic.  This is and engaging read with numerous subplots subtly interwoven with interesting characters and historically  significant ambiance.