Crucible of Secrets: Alexander Seaton 3, from the author of the prizewinning Seeker series

Name: Crucible of Secrets: Alexander Seaton 3, from the author of the prizewinning Seeker series
Brand: Quercus Publishing
SKU: 9781849163163
Price: 14.88 EUR
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By (author): S. G. MacLean

Knowledge is power, and when it gets in the wrong hands it can be lethal. Alchemy and murder combine in a gripping race against time from the CWA award-winning author of The Seeker.

'One of the best writers of historical crime' The Times

Aberdeen, 1631. University librarian Robert Sim takes receipt of a gift of books recently arrived from overseas, mysterious works on alchemy and hermetics - the pursuit of ancient knowledge. By nightfall he has been brutally murdered.

His colleague and good friend Alexander Seaton is left with the task of hunting for clues as to his killer's motive, as well as locating the missing books. What did Sim discover in the package, and what makes these books so dangerous?

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Weight: 320g
Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
Publication Date: 12 Apr 2012
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781849163163

About S. G. MacLean

S.G. MacLean has a PhD in history from Aberdeen University. She is the author of two historical crime series - The Alexander Seaton series set in seventeenth-century Scotland and the Damian Seeker series set in Oliver Cromwell's London as well as the standalone Jacobite thriller The Bookseller of Inverness. She has been shortlisted four times for the CWA Historical Dagger winning it twice. S.G. MacLean lives in Conon Bridge Scotland.