The Devil In The Marshalsea

Author : Antonia Hodgson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544176677
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil in the Marshalsea written by Antonia Hodgson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the darkest debtor's prison in Georgian London, this gripping historical thriller follows Tom Hawkins as he, due to his penchant for wine, women and cards, ends up in Marshalsea where murder runs rampant and no one is as they seem. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Author : Antonia Hodgson
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544715942
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins written by Antonia Hodgson and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively tale of “pitch-perfect suspense” set in eighteenth-century England—one of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Crime/Mystery Novels of the Year. Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don’t hang, and Tom will be damned if he’s the first—he is innocent, after all. It’s hard to say when Tom’s troubles began. He was happily living in sin with his beloved—though their neighbors weren’t happy about that. He probably shouldn’t have told London’s great criminal mastermind that he was in need of adventure. Nor should he have joined the king’s mistress in her fight against her vindictive husband. And he definitely shouldn’t have trusted the calculating Queen Caroline. She’s promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue, but there’s nothing more silent than a hanged man. Now Tom’s scrambling to save his life and protect those he loves. But as the noose tightens, his time is running out.

Author : Antonia Hodgson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473615127
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Collar written by Antonia Hodgson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN 'A triumph . . . leaves the reader hungry for more' Andrew Taylor Autumn, 1728. Life is good for Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks in their home above the Cocked Pistol, Kitty's wickedly disreputable bookshop. But when Tom is attacked by a street gang, he discovers there's a price on his head. Who wants him dead - and why? For Tom and Kitty, the answer is only the beginning of the nightmare. Powerful, deeply immersive, The Silver Collar is both a celebration of love and friendship, and a terrifying exploration of evil. 'One of the best crime series out there . . . a dark and addictive story of slavery and long-hidden secrets' i-News 'The wonderful Thomas Hawkins crime novels . . . [Fans] are in for a treat - gripping' The Times 'Beautifully written and packed with atmosphere, wit, and historical details. I didn't want it to end' Daily Mirror 'Antonia Hodgson is right up in the first division of historical crime' Amanda Craig

Author : Antonia Hodgson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473615089
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Death at Fountains Abbey written by Antonia Hodgson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In a tale that more than matches its predecessors for pace and atmosphere, Hawkins is forced into confrontation with a psychopathic killer...hugely enjoyable' The Sunday Times 'You will burn.' Late spring, 1728. Fresh from his escape from the gallows, Thomas Hawkins has arrived in Yorkshire with his ward, Sam Fleet. But death still has a hand upon his shoulder, even in such idyllic surroundings. John Aislabie, Tom's reluctant host, is being tormented by anonymous letters threatening murder. A disgraced politician, Aislabie certainly has plenty of enemies. But, trapped in a house haunted by old tragedies, Tom begins to suspect that the danger lies much closer to home. Someone is playing a subtle and deadly game of revenge, years in the planning. And now Tom is standing in their way...

Author : Mira Jacob
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408841142
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing written by Mira Jacob and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the family gatherings in her childhood, one stands out in Amina's memory. It is 1979, in Salem India, when a visit to her grandmother's house escalates into an explosive encounter, pitching brother against brother, mother against son. In its aftermath, Amina's father Thomas rushes his family back to their new home in America. And while at first it seems that the intercontinental flight has taken them out of harm's way, his decision sets off a chain of events that will forever haunt Thomas and his wife Kamala; their intellectually furious son, Akhil and the watchful young Amina. Now, twenty years later, Amina receives a phone call from her mother. Thomas has been acting strangely and Kamala needs her daughter back. Amina returns to the New Mexico of her childhood, where her mother has always filled silences with food, only to discover that getting to the truth is not as easy as going home. Confronted with Thomas's unwillingness to talk, Kamala's Born Again convictions, and the suspicion that not everything is what it seems, Amina finds herself at the centre of a mystery so tangled that to make any headway, she has to excavate her family's painful past. And in doing so she must lay her own ghosts to rest.

Author : Beth Lewis
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN 13 : 110190612X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wolf Road written by Beth Lewis and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2016 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published simultaneously in Great Brtain by The Borough Press.

Author : M.J. Carter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698168755
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Feast written by M.J. Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative team Blake and Avery find themselves entangled in a case involving political conflicts, personal vendettas, and England’s first celebrity chef. London, 1842. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London’s newest and grandest gentleman’s club—a death the club is desperate to hush up. What he soon discovers is a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering behind the club’s handsome façade. At the center is its resident genius, Alexis Soyer, “the Napoleon of food,” a chef whose culinary brilliance is matched only by his talent for self-publicity. But Avery is distracted, for where is his mentor and partner in crime Jeremiah Blake? And what if this first death is only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385534787
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quality of Mercy written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy. But as the novel opens, a blithe Sullivan has escaped and is making his way on foot to the north of England, stealing as he goes and sleeping where he can. His destination is Thorpe in the East Durham coalfields, where his dead shipmate, Billy Blair, lived: he has pledged to tell the family how Billy met his end. In this village, Billy's sister, Nan, and her miner husband, James Bordon, live with their three sons, all destined to follow their father down the pit. The youngest, only seven, is enjoying his last summer aboveground. Meanwhile, in London, a passionate anti-slavery campaigner, Frederick Ashton, gets involved in a second case relating to the lost ship. Erasmus Kemp wants compensation for the cargo of sick slaves who were thrown overboard to drown, and Ashton is representing the insurers who dispute his claim. Despite their polarized views on slavery, Ashton's beautiful sister, Jane, encounters Erasmus Kemp and finds herself powerfully attracted to him. Lord Spenton, who owns coal mines in East-Durham, has extravagant habits and is pressed for money. When he applies to the Kemp merchant bank for a loan, Erasmus sees a business opportunity of the kind he has long been hoping for, a way of gaining entry into Britain's rapidly developing and highly profitable coal and steel industries. Thus he too makes his way north, to the very same village that Sullivan is heading for . . . With historical sweep and deep pathos, Unsworth explores the struggles of the powerless and the captive against the rich and the powerful, and what weight mercy may throw on the scales of justice.

Author : Harry Bingham
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 9781409169123
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Simple written by Harry Bingham and published by Orion. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman reports a crime to the police, with unexpected results The grieving widow who finds that she's about to lose more than just her husband When a man attempts the perfect murder, it's not quite as easy as he thinks Two men in prison play a deadly game of Scrabble A young woman tries to trick an old man and gets more than she bargained for Sometimes crimes are solved in ways you can't explain A murderer about to be hanged finds that's not the worst thing that can happen You never know who's going to turn up at your door Original stories from Mark Billingham, Clare Mackintosh, James Oswald, Jane Casey, Angela Marsons, Harry Bingham, Antonia Hodgson and CL Taylor - specially written for Quick Reads.

Author : James McGee
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007343442
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ratcatcher written by James McGee and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regency London is vividly brought to life in this extraordinary page-turner, the first in a series of historical thrillers featuring Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood – a dangerous, sexy and fascinating hero.