The fourth novel in Antonia Hodgson's award-winning series featuring Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks is at once her most thrilling and the most darkly disturbing story yet.
Antonia Hodgson Boeken
Antonia Hodgson is een auteur wiens werken worden gekenmerkt door hun historische sfeer en spannende verhalen. Ze dompelt lezers onder in zorgvuldig uitgewerkte historische settings, die vaak complexe plots en onverwachte wendingen bevatten. Haar schrijven wordt geprezen om het vermogen om lezers in het verhaal te trekken en gedenkwaardige personages te creëren. Lezers waarderen haar meesterschap in het opbouwen van spanning en het verweven van historische feiten met fictieve lotsbestemmingen.
A brilliant historical crime novel of Georgian London from the author of The Devil in the Marshalsea.
A Death at Fountains Abbey
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- 13 uur lezen
Late spring, 1728 and Thomas Hawkins has left London for the wild beauty of Yorkshire - forced on a mission he can't refuse. John Aislabie, one of the wealthiest men in England, has been threatened with murder. Blackmailed into investigating, Tom must hunt down those responsible, or lose the woman he loves forever. Since Aislabie is widely regarded as the architect of the greatest financial swindle ever seen, there is no shortage of suspects. Far from the ragged comforts of home, Tom and his ward Sam Fleet enter a world of elegant surfaces and hidden danger. The great estate is haunted by family secrets and simmering unease. Someone is determined to punish John Aislabie - and anyone who stands in the way. As the violence escalates and shocking truths are revealed, Tom is dragged, inexorably, towards the darkest night of his life.
The Devil in the Marshalsea
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- 14 uur lezen
London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into a hell of a debtor's 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 ruthless 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, as brought further terror to the gaol
