The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers.

A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman begins the journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As he attempts to make his way across the mountains, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.

How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? Here, with the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.

The ground-breaking historical whodunnit, in which 1890s New York is as much a character as the investigators.

A rich evocative thriller set in the seething vitality of 1890s New York by the author of THE ALIENIST.