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Scarlet Town
Leonora Nattrass
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Belletristik / Historische Kriminalromane
Beschreibung
** A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR **
** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD **
'Nattrass's best yet' - S.G. MACLEAN
'Wonderfully evocative' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Authentic and relentlessly pageturning' - SUNDAY EXPRESS
1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large...
Disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life employer the journalist William Philpott have escaped America - and Philpott's near imprisonment for libel - by the skin of their teeth. They return to Laurence's home town of Helston, Cornwall, in the hope of rest and recuperation, but instead find themselves in the middle of a tumultuous election that has the inhabitants of the town at one another's throats.
Only two men may vote in this rotten borough, and when one of them dies in suspicious circumstances, Laurence is ordered to investigate on behalf of the town's patron, his old master the Duke of Leeds. But it is no easy matter, thanks to the machinations of the rival political factions, not to mention the riotous performances of Toby the Sapient Hog.
Then the second elector is poisoned and suspicion turns on the town doctor, the gentle Pythagoras Jago, Laurence's own cousin. Suddenly Laurence finds himself ensnared in generations of bad blood and petty rivalries, with his cousin's fate in his hands...
The new page-turning historical mystery from the author of Black Drop, a 2021 Times Book of the Year, and Blue Water, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura Shepherd-Robinson and S.J. Parris.
'An enjoyable read' - THE TIMES
'Wonderfully witty' - ROBERT J. LLOYD
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<b>Leonora Nattrass transports the reader to 18th-century Cornwall and corrupt electioneering in a divided town... Writing with panache, Nattrass reminds us that rotten boroughs are hardly a new phenomenon.</b>
<b>Well worth reading... Skilfully arranged</b>
<b>Gloriously entertaining... Authentic and relentlessly pageturning, <i>Scarlet Town </i>provides fresh proof of its author'
<b>An elegant, richly detailed, historical joy! Wonderful to be reunited with diffident 'hero'
<b>I absolutely loved <i>Scarlet Town</i>... It is [Nattrass'
<b>As enjoyable a read as her earlier novels</b>
<b>Nattrass is so at home with the history, customs and language of her chosen period that she bring a relaxed credibility to this tale of public and private malfeasance </b>
<b>[Nattrass'
<b>This gets my vote! Jane Austen meets Agatha Christie in this cleverly plotted tale of courtship, poison, and electoral shenanigans. The characters and their dialogue, as ever with Leonora Nattrass, are wonderfully witty</b>
<b>A brilliant addition to the Laurence Jago series, an election in an 18th Century Cornish town where only two people can vote and one of them dies... </b> <b>I loved it</b>
<b>A murderous delight of poisoning, fire, a rigged election and a psychic pig! It'
<b>I so enjoyed the latest adventures of Laurence Jago in this captivating story of political intrigue, mystery and murder. Fast paced and full of unexpected twists and turns, I was thoroughly swept along with our seemingly hapless hero amidst the turmoil of election fever in Helston town. Nattrass expertly guides her readers through the shockingly undemocratic complexities of the rotten borough elections, whilst at the same time spinning a wonderful and compelling murder mystery</b>
<b>Wonderfully evocative</b>
<b><i>Scarlet Town</i> conveys some of the turmoil of the age and the daily detail with an authentic feel... The murder mystery and the danger of the investigation just make it irresistible</b>
<b>I can't get enough of Nattrass'
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