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The discovery of a body in a pigsty, shot to death, leads Coroner
Titus Cragg and Dr Luke Fidelis into a complex and baffling murder
investigation. April, 1746. When County Coroner Titus Cragg is
called to examine a body found shot to death at a local farm, he
finds himself drawn into a bizarre and complex case where nothing
is as it first appears. As he questions those who knew the victim,
it becomes clear that not everyone is telling him the whole truth.
Could the motive for the murder lie in a dangerous contract the
dead man had signed more than twenty years before, a so-called
tontine agreement? Just what does the victim's enigmatic lawyer,
Ambrose Parr, know that he's not revealing? As he and Dr Luke
Fidelis attempt to track down the six other signatories to the
contract, Titus realizes that if they do not find answers - and
fast - more violent deaths will surely follow.
As the Young Pretender and his Jacobite army approach, Coroner
Titus Cragg must solve a brutal murder - and prevent himself being
executed for the crime. November, 1745. Preston, Lancashire.
Rumours abound that Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, has
landed in Scotland, intent on marching south to claim the English
throne. Meanwhile Coroner Titus Cragg must investigate a headless
body discovered in an icy pond. There is evidence to suggest a
connection with the approaching rebel army - unless someone is
deliberately using the Highlanders' invasion as a cover for murder.
As simmering tensions, conflicting loyalties and open hostilities
engulf the town, Cragg finds himself arrested for murder. In order
to clear his name and escape execution by firing squad, Titus must
team up with his old friend, Dr Luke Fidelis, to expose the real
killer.
1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying
their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where
many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the
body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits,
Cragg's enquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants, dead set on
modernising the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners -
and Cragg's apparent championship of them - as obstacles to their
plan. The murder of a baby is just the evidence they need to get
rid of the tanners once and for all. But the inquest into the
baby's death is disrupted when the inn in which it is being held
mysteriously burns down. Then Cragg himself faces a charge of
lewdness, jeopardising his whole future as a coroner. But the fates
have not finished playing with him just yet. The sudden and
suspicious death of a very prominent person may just, with the help
of Fidelis's sharp forensic skills, bring about Cragg's
redemption...
It's the sweltering summer of 1744 and when an epidemic disease
threatens the town, coroner Titus Cragg retires with his wife and
baby son to a remote village in East Lancashire, where he hopes his
family will enjoy the healthy and tranquil air. But Cragg finds the
rural atmosphere anything but peaceful when he's called upon to
investigate the horrific death of a local woman who has fallen
victim to a cruel community punishment. Assisted by his friend Dr
Luke Fidelis, Cragg begins to probe the village's prejudices and
simmering hatreds, as he untangles cross-currents of suspicion,
rivalry and rural customs which are very different from the ways he
knows in the town. Then another local woman disappears, and events
take a disturbing new twist .
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As the Young Pretender and his Jacobite army approach, Coroner
Titus Cragg must solve a brutal murder - and prevent himself being
executed for the crime. November, 1745. Preston, Lancashire.
Rumours abound that Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, has
landed in Scotland, intent on marching south to claim the English
throne. Meanwhile Coroner Titus Cragg must investigate a headless
body discovered in an icy pond. There is evidence to suggest a
connection with the approaching rebel army - unless someone is
deliberately using the Highlanders' invasion as a cover for murder.
As simmering tensions, conflicting loyalties and open hostilities
engulf the town, Cragg finds himself arrested for murder. In order
to clear his name and escape execution by firing squad, Titus must
team up with his old friend, Dr Luke Fidelis, to expose the real
killer.
When a blackened body is discovered buried beneath a hot-house,
Coroner Titus Cragg uncovers a tale of scandalous secrets
stretching back almost twenty years. "Coroner Cragg. You think you
can find out what happened at this house? You are mistaken. You can
never find out." November, 1747. County Coroner Titus Cragg has
been called to the scene of a gruesome slaughter at a rural
farmhouse: a mother and her four children brutally murdered in
their own home. Were they killed by the man who should have
protected them: their husband and father? And what role is played
by the peculiar religious cult the family belongs to? Perhaps the
mute boy who lives in the dog kennel knows the truth. Meanwhile,
Titus's friend Dr Luke Fidelis is a guest of wealthy landowner and
local magistrate John Blackburne at nearby Orford Hall. When a
blackened but well-preserved body is discovered deep beneath
Blackburne's hot-house, Cragg and Fidelis are asked to investigate.
But how can they make headway when, as they soon learn, this corpse
might have been in the ground for centuries? Gradually, Titus
pieces together a tale of secrets, scandal and thwarted passion -
and uncovers a shocking connection between the body under the
hothouse and the slaughter in the farmhouse.
1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying
their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where
many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the
body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits,
Cragg's enquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants, dead set on
modernising the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners -
and Cragg's apparent championship of them - as obstacles to their
plan. The murder of a baby is just the evidence they need to get
rid of the tanners once and for all. But the inquest into the
baby's death is disrupted when the inn in which it is being held
mysteriously burns down. Then Cragg himself faces a charge of
lewdness, jeopardising his whole future as a coroner. But the fates
have not finished playing with him just yet. The sudden and
suspicious death of a very prominent person may just, with the help
of Fidelis's sharp forensic skills, bring about Cragg's
redemption...
When a blackened body is discovered buried beneath a hot-house,
Coroner Titus Cragg uncovers a tale of scandalous secrets
stretching back almost twenty years. "Blake again demonstrates why
he belongs in the first rank of historical mystery novelists" -
Publishers Weekly Starred Review "Coroner Cragg. You think you can
find out what happened at this house? You are mistaken. You can
never find out." November, 1747. County Coroner Titus Cragg has
been called to the scene of a gruesome slaughter at a rural
farmhouse: a mother and her four children brutally murdered in
their own home. Were they killed by the man who should have
protected them: their husband and father? And what role is played
by the peculiar religious cult the family belongs to? Perhaps the
mute boy who lives in the dog kennel knows the truth. Meanwhile,
Titus's friend Dr Luke Fidelis is a guest of wealthy landowner and
local magistrate John Blackburne at nearby Orford Hall. When a
blackened but well-preserved body is discovered deep beneath
Blackburne's hot-house, Cragg and Fidelis are asked to investigate.
But how can they make headway when, as they soon learn, this corpse
might have been in the ground for centuries? Gradually, Titus
pieces together a tale of secrets, scandal and thwarted passion -
and uncovers a shocking connection between the body under the
hothouse and the slaughter in the farmhouse.
The discovery of a body in a pigsty, shot to death, leads Coroner
Titus Cragg and Dr Luke Fidelis into a complex and baffling murder
investigation. April, 1746. When County Coroner Titus Cragg is
called to examine a body found shot to death at a local farm, he
finds himself drawn into a bizarre and complex case where nothing
is as it first appears. As he questions those who knew the victim,
it becomes clear that not everyone is telling him the whole truth.
Could the motive for the murder lie in a dangerous contract the
dead man had signed more than twenty years before, a so-called
tontine agreement? Just what does the victim's enigmatic lawyer,
Ambrose Parr, know that he's not revealing? As he and Dr Luke
Fidelis attempt to track down the six other signatories to the
contract, Titus realizes that if they do not find answers - and
fast - more violent deaths will surely follow.
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