The Lamplighter

Jonah Pike still lights the gas lamps on nine streets in Leeds. There is no budget for the job. There is a reason for it. Every lamplighter in England carries a debt: whatever the city is forbidden to remember, the lamplighter must carry alone. Jonah has been carrying it for eleven years. He is starting to see the woman who had the job before him — in reflections, at the end of his route, always turning away. Ruth made one deal. One dark lamp. One night. The city has been paying for it ever since. A cozy urban fantasy and an absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller, set in a city that forgets on purpose and a man who learns what remembering costs.