18th century historical crime fiction
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amateur sleuth
Author_Leonora Nattrass
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british detective fiction
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Product details
- ISBN 9781788165945
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 158 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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** A WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH **
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD **
** AN INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER **
** A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR **
'A TRULY GRIPPING READ' - GUARDIAN
'FABULOUS, A DELIGHT' - S.G. MACLEAN
'A FINE ADVENTURE REMINISCENT OF PATRICK O'BRIAN' - SUNDAY TIMES
This is the secret report of Laurence Jago. Ex-clerk. Unwilling spy. Reluctant sailor. Accidental detective.
New Year 1795, and Laurence Jago is aboard the Tankerville mail ship, en route to Philadelphia. Ostensibly travelling as assistant to the irrepressible journalist William Philpott, Laurence's real mission is to aid the civil servant carrying a vital treaty to Congress. A treaty that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French in the war against Britain.
However, when the civil servant meets an unfortunate - and supposedly accidental - end and the treaty disappears, Laurence realises only he can now prevent war with the US. Trapped on the ship with travellers including two penniless French aristocrats, an Irish actress and a dancing bear, Laurence must hunt down both the lost treaty and the murderer, before he has a tragic 'accident' himself...
The new page-turning historical mystery from the author of BLACK DROP, a 2021 TIMES Book of the Year. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura Shepherd-Robinson and S.J. Parris.
Leonora Nattrass studied eighteenth-century literature and politics, and spent ten years lecturing in English and publishing works on William Cobbett. She lives in Cornwall, in a seventeenth-century house with seventeenth-century draughts, and spins the fleeces of her Ryeland sheep into yarn. Her first novel, Black Drop, was published in 2021. Find her on Twitter @LeonoraNattrass
