The Book of the Most Precious Substance

Description

After a tragedy almost too painful to bear, Lily Albrecht feels herself lost, adrift and resigned to her quiet life as a rare book dealer. Until she gets a lead on The Book of the Most Precious Substance, a 17th century manual rumoured to be the most powerful occult book ever written, if it really exists at all. With some of the wealthiest people in the world willing to pay Lily a fortune to find it, she embarks on a journey from New York to New Orleans to Munich to Paris. But will Lily's quest help her find some answers, or will she lose everything searching for a ghost?

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Similar books

• 

  The Book of the Most Precious Substance

  By Sara Gran

  Will Lily fulfill her own desires, and join them? Or will she lose it all searching for a ghost? The Book of the Most Precious Substance is an addictive erotic thriller about the lengths we'll go to get what we need-and what we want.

• 

  The Most Precious Substance on Earth

  By Shashi Bhat

  A Chatelaine Summer Reads pick. Named one of the most anticipated books of the fall by CBC Books and 49th Shelf. Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s sharp, darkly comic, and...

• 

  Saturn's Return to New York

  By Sara Gran

  Elegiac, elegant, and more relevant than ever, this new edition of Sara Gran’s debut novel is a modern literary classic.

• 

  Come Closer: A Novel

  By Sara Gran

  Her marriage to Ed is challenged by odd noises, petty squabbles, and the onset of blackouts with no medical source, Amanda accidentally recieves a book on possession, the arrival of which coincides with increasingly bizarre events.

• 

  The Infinite Blacktop: A Novel

  By Sara Gran

  As a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, Claire and her two best friends, Tracy and Kelly, fell under the spell of the book Detection by legendary French detective Jacques Silette.

• 

  Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway

  By Sara Gran

  Craig Clevenger, author of The Contortionist s Handbook What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis s Lew Griffin . . . or Sue Grafton s Kinsey Millhone transformed herself into a tattooed magnolia ...

• 

  BOOK OF THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE.

  By SARA. GRAN

  Rare book dealer Lily Albrecht has just been given a tip-off about The Book of the Most Precious Substance, a seventeenth century manual rumoured to be the most powerful occult book ever written, if it really exists at all.[Bokinfo].

• 

  The Lost Book of Adana Moreau: A Novel

  By Michael Zapata

  *Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction* A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee An NPR Best Book of the Year A BookPage Best Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020 A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 ...

• 

  Precious You

  By Helen Monks Takhar

  An obsessive power struggle between an editor and her millennial intern turns dangerous in this debut psychological thriller--for readers of Luckiest Girl Alive and You.

• 

  Out There: Stories

  By Kate Folk

  And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to ...