'A wonderful and compelling murder mystery' - LOUISE FEIN 'A
brilliantly entertaining historical crime' - PHILIPPA EAST 'An
elegant, richly detailed, historical joy' - KATE GRIFFIN 1796. A
rigged election. A town at war. a murderer at large... Disgraced
former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life
employer the journalist William Philpott have escaped America - and
Philpott's near imprisonment for libel - by the skin of their
teeth. They return to Laurence's home town of Helston, Cornwall, in
the hope of rest and recuperation, but instead find themselves in
the middle of a tumultuous election that has the inhabitants of the
town at one another's throats. Only two men may vote in this rotten
borough, and when one of them dies in suspicious circumstances,
Laurence is ordered to investigate on behalf of the town's patron,
his old master the Duke of Leeds. But it is no easy matter, thanks
to the machinations of the rival political factions, not to mention
the riotous performances of Toby the Sapient Hog. Then the second
elector is poisoned and suspicion turns on the town doctor, the
gentle Pythagoras Jago, Laurence's own cousin. Suddenly Laurence
finds himself ensnared in generations of bad blood and petty
rivalries, with his cousin's fate in his hands... The new
page-turning historical mystery from the author of Black Drop, a
2021 Times Book of the Year, and Blue Water, a Waterstones Thriller
of the Month. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura
Shepherd-Robinson and S.J. Parris.
General
| Imprint: |
Viper
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Laurence Jago |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Leonora Nattrass
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
320 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80081-696-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-80081-696-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781800816961 |
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