A wonderful and compelling murder mystery'- LOUISE FEIN'Brilliantly entertaining historical crime'- PHILIPPA EASTA rigged election. A feuding Cornish town. A suspicious death. And a perspicacious pig.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 political patron,his old master the Duke of Leeds. 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. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor and Laura Shepherd-Robinson.
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Publisher: Profile Books LtdISBN: 9781800816992Number of pages: 384Dimensions: 198 x 129 mmEdition: Main
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Nattrass is so at home with the history,customs and language of her chosen period that she bring a relaxed credibility to this tale of public and private malfeasanceGloriously entertaining... Authentic and relentlessly pageturning,Scarlet Town provides fresh proof of its author's talent for setting a gripping murder mystery against a detailed backdrop of 18th-century society,and it further enhances her reputation as a first-class writerThis gets my vote! Jane Austen meets Agatha Christie in this cleverly plotted tale of courtship,poison,and electoral shenanigans. The characters and their dialogue,as ever with Leonora Nattrass,are wonderfully wittyI can't get enough of Nattrass's Laurence Jago series,and Scarlet Town is another fantastic instalment! With a setting and characters that leap off the page,Scarlet Town is an immersive and delightful read that I absolutely whizzed through. A brilliantly entertaining historical crime caper - I loved it
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