WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014.Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014.London,1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games,brothels and coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors'prison.The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own,with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor and disease. And those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol's rutheless governor and his cronies.The trouble is,Tom Hawkins has never been good at following rules - even simple ones. And the recent grisly murder of a debtor,Captain Roberts,has brought further terror to the gaol. While the Captain's beautiful widow cries for justice,the finger of suspicion points only one way: to the sly,enigmatic figure of Samuel Fleet.Some call Fleet a devil,a man to avoid at all costs. But Tom Hawkins is sharing his cell. Soon,Tom's choice is clear: get to the truth of the murder - or be the next to die.A twisting mystery,a dazzling evocation of early 18th Century London,THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA is a thrilling debut novel full of intrigue and suspense.
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9781444775433Number of pages: 400Weight: 282 gDimensions: 200 x 130 x 27 mm
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A splendid debut...this is a truly spellbinding tale.Hodgson's utterly compelling debut is fiendishly plotted and dripping with atmosphere. I cannot wait for Tom Hawkin's next adventure.It is the mesh of lies and duplicity that draws you into this brilliant first novel ...a blood-drenched investigation that twists and turns in the vortex of Georgian societyHistorical fiction just doesn't get any better than this. Magnificent!The pace is relentless ...an absolutely superb debut novel
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