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Author
Series
Ashes of London volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1666 London, as the Great Fire ravages the city, a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St. Paul{u2019}s cathedral, and James Marwood, the son of a disgraced printer, and reluctant government informer, is tasked with hunting down a killer across a devastated landscape.
Author
Series
Ashes of London volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From No.1 bestselling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London. Somewhere in the soot-stained ruins of Restoration London, a killer has gone to ground. The Great Fire has ravaged London, wreaking destruction and devastation wherever its flames spread. Now, guided by the incorruptible Fire Court, the city is slowly rebuilding, but times are volatile and danger is only ever a heartbeat away. James Marwood,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Detective Inspector with the City Police, Nigella Parker, teams up with her ex of Scotland Yard to track down a serial killer who is creating sculptures around London using burnt human flesh and becoming the "artist's" unwitting next targets.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Damnation has never been so sweet.... When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted.... Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a transformation, as her husband recognises in Rosamund a magic she does not know she...
Author
Series
Lucy Campion mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1666 and the Great Fire has just decimated an already plague-ridden London. Lady's maid Lucy Campion, along with pretty much everyone else left standing, is doing her part to help the city clean up and recover. But their efforts come to a standstill when a couple of local boys stumble across a dead body that should have been burned up in the fire but miraculously remained intact--the body of a man who died not from the plague or the fire, but...
Author
Series
Ashes of London volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a man's brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is ordered to investigate. It's possible the victim could be one of two local men who have vanished - the first, a feckless French tutor connected to the almshouse's...
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