Blood & Sugar, Daughters of Night [Hardcover] By Laura Shepherd-Robinson Collection 2 Books Set

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Blood & Sugar, Daughters of Night By Laura Shepherd-Robinson Collection 2 Books

Blood &
‘A page-turner of a crime thriller . . . This is a world conveyed with convincing, terrible clarity’ – C. J. Sansom Winner of the HWA Debut Crown 2019 Winner of the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award 2020 Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd-Robinson for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor. June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark. Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham – a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career – is visited by the sister of an old friend. Her brother, passionate abolitionist Tad Archer, had been about to expose a secret that he believed could cause irreparable damage to the British slaving industry. He’d said people were trying to kill him, and now he is missing . . .

Daughters of
Spectacularly brilliant . . . One of the most enjoyable and enduring stories I have ever read' -- James O'Brien 'This is right up there with the best of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor' -- Amanda Craig London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline ‘Caro’ Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased woman was a highly paid prostitute, at which point they cease to care entirely. But Caro has motives of her own for wanting to see justice done, and so sets out to solve the crime herself.

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