Kate Atkinson's new historical novel “temples of fun” invites the reader into the mazes of nightlife and the criminal world of interwar London. In a city that is just beginning to recover from the first World War, those who were lucky enough to survive are trying to take everything from life.

In the slums of London, the Queen of nightclubs is trying to save her criminal empire from the onslaught of competitors and the hand of the law. A librarian with a dramatic past searches for missing children. An honest police officer investigates a series of mysterious murders and fights corruption in the thoroughly rotten London police. Due to a combination of circumstances, their paths intersect, as a result of which several destinies and the map of the criminal world of London will change.

Will they have time to prevent new deaths, protect their people, and stand up for what they believe in? Will they all survive until morning in a city where royalty congregate in the same clubs as the most dangerous gangs, rumors of The Curse of Tutankhamun's tomb are intertwined with criminal chronicles, the river is full of merchant fleets and drowned people, and everyone is having fun until dawn, except for those who have already died?