The Trees Rose Tremain giving Merrin an opportunity he

giving Merrin an opportunity he has been waiting years for

comes the second book in the Nevernight Chronicle

they assume they'll be dealing with a simple case of theft

in particular from her old acquaintance Chief Inspector Markby and from her new neighbour Harriet Needham

The Trees Rose Tremain giving Merrin an opportunity heThere came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies,