Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: Climbing Tree Books
ISBN-10: B01GZXYNK8
Type: Fiction
Pages: 287
Copyright: July 11, 2016
Price: $5.49 (eBook)
1665.
Rebel. Lover. Spy.
Murderer?
The first in M J Logue’s new series, The Drowned Books, features the fortunes of young Thomazine and her new husband, retired Roundhead Major Thankful Russell.
It’s 1665, and His Majesty Charles II has been restored to the throne of England these five years and more – restored with sufficient confidence that he can pardon old rebels like Russell into his service. It’s the dawn of a gilded age of wonders. (Like, Thankful thinks, happy, headstrong Thomazine having noticed a shy, battle-scarred old warhorse like him, let alone cared enough to marry him.)
But there’s a serpent in this Eden, and Thomazine is stunned to realise that someone is trying to frame her husband for the cruel murder of his sister – and that such a delicious, malicious, very persistent rumour is the talk of every dinner-party in Whitehall.
For as war with the Dutch looms and tensions run high in the streets of London, Thankful’s shadowed past is suddenly exposed to salacious public scrutiny. A second murder, and a fire that destroys an East Indiaman moored up at Wapping, and a new rumour begins to circulate.
Could the scarred and enigmatic major be not only a murderer, but a traitor to his country?
Thomazine loves her husband. And she trusts him. When he tells her he’s retired from past service as an intelligencer to the Admiralty, she believes him.
But someone doesn’t.
Can Thomazine and Thankful catch up with the murderer before he catches up with them? And will the darkness of Thankful’s past catch up with both of them?
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