Monday 18 March 2024

THE BRIEF is the first crime novel in an exciting historical series, the Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers – gritty, hard-boiled mysteries set in 1960s London.


The Brief
(Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers Book 1)
By Simon Michael


Publication Date: 10th June 2020
Publisher: Sapere Books
Page Length: 279 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller

Guilty until proven innocent…
London, 1960

Barrister Charles Holborne is not popular. A Jewish East Ender with a rough past, he is ostracised by his anti-Semitic and class-conscious colleagues who don’t want him in their prestigious Establishment profession.

And the bitterness Charles feels at work is spilling over into his personal life, putting his marriage under strain.

When a high-profile murder case lands on his desk, Charles is hopeful his fortunes will turn around. But after a shocking crime is committed, he finds himself on the other side of law…

Can he outwit those trying to frame him? Will he manage to unmask the real criminal?

Or will he find himself on trial for murder…?

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The Brief

Simon Michael


Simon Michael, often referred to as “the British John Grisham”, is the author of the best-selling London 1960s Charles Holborne series, featuring his antihero barrister, an East End villain made good but struggling in his West End profession. 

Simon was published in the UK and the US in the 1980s and returned to writing when he retired from the law in 2016. The Charles Holborne series, The Brief, An Honest Man, The Lighterman, Corrupted, The Waxwork Corpse, Force of Evil and the latest, The Final Shot, have all garnered strong reviews for their authenticity and excitement.

Simon’s tales from the Bar and the plots for his novels are based on his criminal practice, his life and that of his own family. Refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, the Michael family arrived in the Port of London in 1492 and remained in the East End for the next 450 years. Simon believes himself to be the only member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple formerly to have been a council labourer, a van driver and a gardener. Once qualified he practised as a barrister for 37 years, working at the Old Bailey and other criminal courts, defending and prosecuting a wide selection of murderers, armed robbers, con artists and other assorted villainy. The era about which he writes, the 1960s, was the “wild west” of British justice, a time when the Krays, the Richardsons and other violent gangs fought for control of London’s organised crime, and the corrupt Metropolitan Police beat up suspects, twisted evidence and took a share of the criminal proceeds. Simon weaves into his thrillers real events of the time, the cases on which he worked, and his unusual family history.

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Sunday 17 March 2024

On the dawn of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, two snipers find themselves fighting a battle all their own.


 Ghost Sniper
(Caje Cole Book 1) 
By David Healey


Publication Date: 15th January 2014
Publisher: Intracoastal 
Page Length: 300 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller

June 6, 1944. 

On the dawn of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, two snipers find themselves fighting a battle all their own. One is a backwoods hunter from the Appalachian Mountains in the American South, while the other is the dreaded German “Ghost Sniper” who earned his nickname on the Eastern Front. Locked in a deadly duel across the hedgerow country of France, the hunter matches wits and tactics against the marksman, both of them one bullet away from victory—or defeat—as Allied forces struggle to gain a foothold in Europe.

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 Ghost Sniper

David Healey


David Healey made his publishing debut with SHARPSHOOTER, a what-if historical thriller about an attempt to assassinate Union General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, published by an imprint of Penguin Putnam. That novel was the result of years of research into the Civil War that included time as a reenactor at Gettysburg and other battlefields. 

In its review, the Civil War News wrote: “SHARPSHOOTER has the feel of a techno-thriller, the kind offered by Tom Clancy or Dean Koontz ... SHARPSHOOTER moves quickly and is filled with all manner of intrigue."

Healey has brought that same passion for research and history to his World War II novels, GHOST SNIPER, ARDENNES SNIPER, and RED SNIPER. During a 21-year career as a journalist, he was fortunate enough to interview many veterans of the 29th Division who landed at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Some of the events and characters in these novels were inspired by their stories.

He loves the idea of a character like Micajah Cole, a self-reliant backwoods hunter who turns out to be unrelenting and ruthless as a sniper, especially against a skilled adversary, in the pages of these books.

In addition to fiction, he has written books on regional history, including 1812: REDISCOVERING CHESAPEAKE BAY'S FORGOTTEN WAR and GREAT STORMS OF THE CHESAPEAKE.

A graduate of Washington College and the Stonecoast MFA program, he was recognized in 2011 as a Chaney Scholar in history by St. Mary’s College of Maryland. 

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Saturday 16 March 2024

From the beaches of Dunkirk to the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, from Resistance bombings in the south of France to the machinations in the basements of MI-6.


After Dunkirk
(The After Dunkirk Series Book 1)
By Lee Jackson



Publication Date: 8th September 2022
Publisher: Severn River Publishing
Page Length: 396 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller

From the beaches of Dunkirk to the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, from Resistance bombings in the south of France to the machinations in the basements of MI-6.

Winston Churchill called it Britain’s finest hour. The Royal Navy evacuated 330,000 soldiers from Dunkirk.

But more than 200,000 were left behind.

On the beaches, Jeremy Littlefield hides for his life. His path home will draw him through the iron will and the unbreakable heart of the French Resistance.

Only a few miles away, his brother, Lance, rallies fellow soldiers to start a trek that will take them across Europe, sabotaging the Germans in a mission tantamount to suicide.

Back in England, their sister Claire works at Bletchley Park, cracking the codes that could save the lives of her brothers, and thousands of their comrades.

Finally, there is Paul, the cerebral eldest son, working for MI-6, who always knows more than he is able to tell his beloved siblings.

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After Dunkirk

Lee Jackson


Lee Jackson is a bestselling, award-winning international World War II and spy thriller author. He was an Infantry officer with a front-row seat on world affairs and spent 38 months in Iraq and Afghanistan. Click FOLLOW for instant notification of new releases. Join his mailing list for bonus content and book updates: https://bit.ly/2WwsatT

Prodded by his publisher after the success of his first series, Lee launched into writing fact-driven, well-researched WW2 novels in the After Dunkirk Series that trace the challenges and acts of courage of a family scattered in England, across Europe, and to the US and the Pacific Theater during the world's most widespread and destructive conflict. Join Jeremy Littlefield as he escapes Dunkirk and then engages in dogfights flying a Spitfire. Watch Paul as he learns of and copes with intrigue at the highest levels in Great Britain and the US. Scheme with Lance as he outthinks tried to evade capture. Will he succeed? And delve into decrypting and analyzing German military messages, anticipating what the enemy will do next. Can this family survive and find themselves intact at the war's end. 

Of Lee's prior series, The Reluctant Assassin (formerly Curse The Moon) was his first and was published in 8 countries. It follows Atcho, a counter-revolutionary leader in Cuba turned unwilling spy in the U.S. The odds he faces seem overwhelming as he must choose between saving the world from a nuclear holocaust - or his daughter. In Lee’s second book, Rasputin's Legacy, Atcho faces a surreal challenge: he must save the country that enslaved his own or deliver control of the Russian nuclear apparatus into the hands of a maniac. Can he set aside his personal desire for revenge? In his third book, Vortex: Berlin, he battles forces bent on keeping absolute power in the divided German city. Can he stop the massacre intended to terrify increasingly rebellious citizens determined to regain control over their own lives? And in the fifth and final book of the series, he goes after the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.

Lee lives with his wife in Texas and is a full-time writer.



Friday 15 March 2024

A scintillating medieval adventure of warfare and espionage.



A Flight of Arrows
(The Hundred Years' War Book 1)
By A. J. MacKenzie


Publication Date: 11th March 2021
Publisher: Canelo Adventure
Page Length: 469 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller

1328. After years of civil unrest between England and France, Charles IV dies, leaving no apparent heir. His closest heir to the throne is Edward III of England, but it passes instead to Charles' cousin, Phillip, spurring both countries on to war.

1346. Landing at Normandy, Edward's immense army makes inroads into French territory, burning everything in their path. But the mysterious assassination of an English knight reveals a terrible truth: there is a traitor in their midst. The king charges Simon Merrivale, the Prince of Wales’ herald, with solving the case.

As the army marches on towards its destiny, at the awesome scenes of the Battle of Crécy, Simon will uncover a conspiracy that goes to the heart of the warring nations. Among the ashes and the rubble, their fate will be decided: on the battlefield... and in the shadows.

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A Flight of Arrows

A J Mackenzie


A J Mackenzie is the pseudonym of Marilyn Livingstone and Morgen Witzel, an Anglo-Canadian husband-and-wife team of writers and historians. Marilyn has a PhD in medieval economic history and Morgen has an MA in early modern history. They have lived and worked in the UK for over 30 years. 

A J MacKenzie currently has 3 series of historical crime/thrillers published. The 1st, the Hardcastle & Chaytor mysteries (published by Zaffre) are set in 1790s Kent and are full of intrigue, smuggling and murder. The 2nd (published by Canelo) are set in 1812-13 in Canada during the War of 1812 between the USA and Canada. The 3rd is set during the 100 Years War in the 1340s and the latest book, The Fallen Sword was published on 12 May 2022 from Canelo.

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Thursday 14 March 2024

One hidden painting. Two women born centuries apart. A secret uncovered.

 

The Venice Secret
By Anita Chapman


Publication Date: 7ht March 2023
Publisher: Neets Press 
Page Length: 420 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller

One hidden painting. Two women born centuries apart. A secret uncovered.

In 2019, Rachel is stuck in a rut when she discovers what appears to be a Canaletto painting in her grandmother's loft along with a note addressed to Philippa in 1782. With help from Jake at the local art gallery, Rachel endeavours to find out if the painting is an original and uncovers a secret from the past.

In 1780, governess at Chipford Hall, Philippa is offered the role of mistress by Earl Rupert. She escapes to Venice as companion to bluestocking, Lady Cordelia who reveals a secret that changes both their lives. They do their best to keep the secret from Lady Cordelia's social circle, but their nemesis is determined to reveal all and ruin them.

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Anita Chapman



Anita Chapman's first novel, The Venice Secret was published in March 2023 and spent six weeks in the overall Amazon UK Kindle Top 100, reaching number thirty-eight. The Venice Secret has had over five million Kindle Unlimited pages read and received more than 4000 Amazon reviews since publication. Anita’s next novel will be published by Bookouture in June 2024.

Anita enjoyed writing stories from a young age, and won a local writing competition when she was nine years old. Encouraged by this, she typed up a series of stories about a mouse on her mum’s typewriter and sent them to Ladybird. She received a polite rejection letter, her first.

Many of Anita’s summers growing up were spent with her family driving to Italy, and she went on to study French and Italian at university. As part of her degree, Anita lived in Siena for several months where she studied and au paired, and she spent a lot of time travelling around Italy in her twenties. 

Anita likes to read journals and diaries from the past, and one of her favourite pastimes is visiting art galleries and country houses. Her first published novel, The Venice Secret is inspired by her mother taking her to see the Canalettos at The National Gallery in London as a child. 

Since 2015, Anita has worked as a social media manager, training authors on social media, and helping to promote their books. She’s run several courses in London and York, and has worked as a tutor at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College.

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Dive into an extract from the award-winning novel Cinnamon Girl by Trish MacEnulty.





Cinnamon Girl 
By Trish MacEnulty

Publication Date: September 11th, 2023
Publisher: Livingston Press
Page Length: 311 Pages
Genre: Historical Young Adult
 (but boomers love it, too)!

Winner of the Gold Medal in YA Fiction from The Historical Fiction Company!

When her beloved step-grandmother, a semi-retired opera singer, dies of cancer in 1970, 15-year-old Eli Burnes runs away with a draft-dodger, thinking she's on the road to adventure and romance. What she finds instead is a world of underground Weathermen, Black Power revolutionaries, snitches and shoot-first police.

Eventually Eli is rescued by her father, who turns out both more responsible and more revolutionary than she'd imagined. But when he gets in trouble with the law, she finds herself on the road again, searching for the allies who will help her learn how to save herself.

"The book is a fantastic read: fast-moving, full of smoothly woven historical detail and rich characterizations, all told in Eli's appealing voice." — Sarah Johnson, Reading the Past


Excerpt


As I lay in my bed night after night, I wondered what would happen to me when Mattie died. Since my dad now had two boys with Cleo, I wasn’t sure he wanted me. Whenever he came to visit us, he was always affectionate but I felt as if he were playing a role that he didn’t quite fit like happened sometimes in Mattie’s operas when Max, the fat postman with the amazing voice, had to play a handsome young lover.
 
The Christmas of 1969 Billy and Cleo had not come to visit us for Christmas because one of the kids was sick. Instead he had sent me a transistor radio and a letter explaining that late at night, radio waves bounced off the ionosphere, and I’d be able to hear radio stations from other parts of the country, including his in St. Louis. On those nights when I couldn’t sleep I would carefully move the dial up and down. Suddenly my dad’s deep voice would cut through the air, and it would sound as if he were sitting right there in the room with me. 

“This is Bad Billy Burnes on KXOK, playing Top-40 hits and your requests,” he would growl. Then he’d play something by the Beatles, the Carpenters, or Diana Ross— not the kind of music that was ever played in the house on the hill. One night he played “Cinnamon Girl” by a band called Crazy Horse. He said, “I want to dedicate this song to a very special someone in my life. She owns my heart.” I thought it was sweet that he had dedicated a song to Cleo. 

In my room on my antique dresser, I kept a “treasure box,” an old cigar box that I decorated in the fourth grade with rhinestones and paint. This box had things I thought I should keep forever: some silver spoons with a great-grandmother’s initials, a little gold cross Miz Johnny had given me, a pencil once owned by Wolfgang, an old daguerreotype of some ancestor from before the Civil War, a few of my favorite marbles from childhood and the only picture I had of my mother, Carmella. The photo was a black and white picture of her and my dad, standing by a long sleek car. I was not born when this picture was taken. My mother was not smiling. Her hair was dark and thick. I could not, of course, see the color of her eyes. I imagined they must be brown because I had brown eyes, and Billy’s were the bluest of blues. She was staring at the camera, a defiant look on her face, while my dad, still a teenager, stared at her. I always thought she was looking at the future, looking at me.

No one ever spoke about my mother. I knew that she wasn’t from Augusta and she had no family here. Her mother, I think, was Cuban or Puerto Rican, which is how she wound up with a Spanish name and how I wound up with dark eyes. She’d been working at the National Golf Club as a waitress where my dad was a caddy. That’s how they met, and that’s all the information I could ever pry out of Miz Johnny. 

The only other mention of my mother I could remember happened when I was around nine or ten at one of Mattie’s parties. I had fallen asleep under the piano but I woke up and heard the adults talking. They were asking Mattie why I had a black eye.

“She got in a fight with a boy at school who said her mother was a you-know-what-loving whore.” I heard a gasp. The boy, Marvin, came from a KKK family and the word he had said was one I was never allowed to say. I wasn’t sure what the other word, “whore,” meant, but I beat his ass anyway. He got in one good lick before I creamed him. Fighting is childish, I know, but I allowed myself the satisfaction of seeing tears dribbling down his face. When I’d come home and told them what had happened, Miz Johnny got really quiet, and Mattie sent me upstairs to take a bath. 


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Trish MacEnulty


Trish MacEnulty is the author of a historical novel series, literary novels, memoirs, a short story collection, children’s plays, and most recently, the historical coming-of-age novel, Cinnamon Girl (Livingston Press, Sept. 2023). She has a Ph.D. in English from the Florida State University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Florida. She currently writes book reviews and features for the Historical Novel Society. 

She lives in Florida with her husband Joe and her two tubby critters, Franco and Tumbleweed. More info at her website: trishmacenulty.com.

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Told from the king’s perspective, A Matter of Time: Henry VIII: the Dying of the Light shines a torch into the heart and mind of England’s most tyrannical king.



A Matter of Time: Henry VIII, the Dying of the Light
By Judith Arnopp


Publication Date: 2nd February 2024
Publisher: Independently Published
Page Length: 302 Pages
Genre: Historical Biographical Fiction

With youth now far behind him, King Henry VIII has only produced one infant son and two bastard daughters. More sons are essential to secure the Tudor line and with his third wife, Jane Seymour dead, Henry hunts for a suitable replacement.

After the break from Rome, trouble is brewing with France and Scotland. Thomas Cromwell arranges a diplomatic marriage with the sister of the Duke of Cleves but when it comes to women, Henry is fastidious, and the new bride does not please him. The increasingly unpredictable king sets his sights instead upon Katherine Howard and instructs Cromwell to free him from the match with Cleves.

Failure to rid the king of his unloved wife could cost Cromwell his head.

Henry, now ailing and ageing, is invigorated by his flighty new bride but despite the favours he heaps upon her, he cannot win Katherine’s heart. A little over a year later, broken by her infidelity, she becomes the second of his wives to die on the scaffold, leaving Henry friendless and alone.

But his stout heart will not surrender and leaving his sixth wife, Katheryn Parr, installed as regent over England, Henry embarks on a final war to win back territories lost to the French more than a century before. Hungry for glory, the king is determined that the name Henry VIII will shine brighter and longer than that of his hero, Henry V.

Told from the king’s perspective, A Matter of Time: Henry VIII: the Dying of the Light shines a torch into the heart and mind of England’s most tyrannical king.

Excerpt

May day 1540 Henry preparing for the May Day celebration

The morning of the annual May Day celebrations dawns bright and the whole court is merry. Culpepper arrives early, a little after dawn, to change my bandages before the gentlemen of the bedchamber arrive to help me dress. Already garbed in their finest, we will make a fine splash of colour when we enter the competition grounds. I am not competing today, since my leg continues to plague me, but Thomas Seymour and Richard Cromwell will be riding in my stead.

Before I have finished dressing, Will Somer appears, clad as usual in goose turd green with a jolly feather in his cap.

“I am ready,” he announces grandly. “Are you wearing that, sweet king, are you sure that is wise?”

He regards my finery with a curled lip, which makes the gentlemen gasp, but I am confident I am looking my best. Somer is doing what he is paid to do. It is a shame more of my servants don’t do the same. My companions may have missed the cheeky sparkle in his eye, but nothing evades me. I content myself with clouting the fool around the head and, when he ducks away laughing, I throw a jug at him.

It crashes at the feet of Culpepper who is just bringing my hat for approval. He stops in surprise, looks wide-eyed around the chamber.

“Is it safe to come in?” he asks with a grin before approaching and arranging my cap at a jaunty angle, and fluffing the wisps of feathers so that they float fetchingly about my head. 

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A Matter of Time: Henry VIII, the Dying of the Light

Judith Arnopp


A lifelong history enthusiast and avid reader, Judith holds a BA in English/Creative writing and an MA in Medieval Studies. She lives on the coast of West Wales where she writes both fiction and non-fiction. She is best known for her novels set in the Medieval and Tudor period, focusing on the perspective of historical women but recently she has been writing from the perspective of Henry VIII himself.

Judith is also a founder member of a re-enactment group called The Fyne Companye of Cambria which is when she began to experiment with sewing historical garments. She now makes clothes and accessories both for the group and others. She is not a professionally trained sewer but through trial, error and determination has learned how to make authentic looking, if not strictly historically accurate clothing. Her non-fiction book, How to Dress like a Tudor was published by Pen and Sword in 2023.

Her novels include:
A Song of Sixpence: the story of Elizabeth of York
The Beaufort Chronicle: the life of Lady Margaret Beaufort (three book series)
A Matter of Conscience: Henry VIII, the Aragon Years (Book One of The Henrician Chronicle)
A Matter of Faith: Henry VIII, the Days of the Phoenix (Book Two of The Henrician chronicle)
A Matter of Time: Henry VIII, the Dying of the Light (Book Three, Coming soon)
The Kiss of the Concubine: a story of Anne Boleyn
The Winchester Goose: at the court of Henry VIII
Intractable Heart: the story of Katheryn Parr
Sisters of Arden: on the Pilgrimage of Grace
The Heretic Wind: the life of Mary Tudor, Queen of England
Peaceweaver
The Forest Dwellers
The Song of Heledd

Previously published under the pen name – J M Ruddock.
The Book of Thornhold
A Daughter of Warwick: the story of Anne Neville, Queen of Richard III

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Wednesday 13 March 2024

Because it’s not just his life on the line – but also the fate of the Western world.



The Scarlet Papers
By Matthew Richardson


Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin
Page Length: 567 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller

Historian Max Archer is invited to a clandestine meeting with legendary Cold War spymaster, Scarlet King.

Her offer to share the explosive secrets born of over half a century at the heart of global espionage would be life-changing.

But Max has little reason to trust a woman whose name is a byword for deceit and ruthlessness.

Soon he is on the wrong side of the law and on the run. As the net closes tighter around him he must somehow discover the truth.

Because it’s not just his life on the line – but also the fate of the Western world . . .

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The Scarlet Papers
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Matthew Richardson

Photo by Minky Schlesinger

Matthew Richardson studied English at Durham University and Merton College, Oxford. He has worked as a freelance journalist and a speechwriter in Westminster writing pieces for a wide variety of publications, including The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman. 

In 2015, he was signed by Penguin in a six-figure pre-empt deal for three espionage novels. His debut, MY NAME IS NOBODY, was published in 2017 to critical acclaim; INSIDER, was published in 2021 and THE SCARLET PAPERS was published to critical acclaim in 2023 becoming The Times Thriller of the Year, A Sunday Times Book of the Year, and A Guardian Book of the Year. In 2022 Matthew sold a standalone thriller, ANNA O, in over thirty territories with auctions in the US, the UK and Germany resulting in three separate 7 figure advances.

THE SCARLET PAPERS has been optioned by a US studio with Matthew executive producing and co-writing. MY NAME IS NOBODY has recently been optioned to House Productions.  As scriptwriter, Matthew has sold numerous TV series concepts and is in development with various production companies including Sid Gentle, Cowboy Films, Ink Factory and House.




Tuesday 12 March 2024

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No one knows where Seeker comes from, who his family is, or even his real name. All that is known for certain is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell and that he has eyes everywhere.

 


The Seeker
By S G MacLean


Publication Date: 7th May 2015
Publisher: Quercus
Page Length: 341 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller

London, 1654. 

Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Captain Damian Seeker is his most trusted agent. No one knows where Seeker comes from, who his family is, or even his real name. All that is known for certain is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell and that he has eyes everywhere.

In the city, coffee houses are springing up, places where men may meet to plot and gossip. Now they are ringing with news of a murder. John Winter, hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army, is dead, and the lawyer, Elias Ellingworth, found standing over the bleeding body, clutching a knife.

Yet despite the damning evidence, Seeker is not convinced of Ellingworth's guilt. He will stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice: and Seeker knows better than any man where to search.

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The Seeker

S.G. MacLean


S.G. MacLean has a PhD in history from Aberdeen University. She is the author of two historical crime series – The Alexander Seaton series, set in seventeenth-century Scotland, and the Damian Seeker series, set in Oliver Cromwell’s London, as well as the standalone Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness. She has been shortlisted four times for the CWA Historical Dagger, winning it twice. S.G. MacLean lives in Conon Bridge, Scotland.