Scent of Death: Free Sampler e-bog
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Discover the Best Historical Crime Novel of 2013 (Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Award) with this FREE 100 page extract from the No.1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY. 'Andrew Taylor's historical crime fiction is always an event,' Guardian.August, 1778. British-controlled Manhattan is a melting pot of soldiers, traitors and refugees, surrounded by rebel forces as the American War...
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25,00 DKK
Forlag
HarperCollins
Udgivet
10 oktober 2013
Genrer
1DDU-GB-ENC
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780007557615
Discover the Best Historical Crime Novel of 2013 (Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Award) with this FREE 100 page extract from the No.1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY. 'Andrew Taylor's historical crime fiction is always an event,' Guardian.August, 1778. British-controlled Manhattan is a melting pot of soldiers, traitors and refugees, surrounded by rebel forces as the American War of Independence rages on.Into this simmering tension sails Edward Savill, a London clerk tasked with assessing the claims of loyalists who have lost out during the war.Savill lodges with the ageing Judge Wintour, his ailing wife, and their enigmatic daughter-in-law Arabella. However, as Savill soon learns, what the Wintours have lost in wealth, they have gained in secrets.The murder of a gentleman in the slums pulls Savill into the city's underbelly. But when life is so cheap, why does one death matter? Because making a nation is a lucrative business, and some people cannot afford to miss out, whatever the price...