Skin and Bone - Couverture souple

Blake, Robin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472122607 ISBN 13 : 9781472122605

Editeur : Constable, 2016

Synopsis

The fourth book in the Cragg & Fidelis historical crime series, from a master of the genre.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robin Blake is a novelist, art critic and acclaimed biographer of Anthony Van Dyck and George Stubbs. Born and brought up in Preston, he has lived for many years in London.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's enquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants, dead set on modernising the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners - and Cragg's apparent championship of them - as obstacles to their plan. The murder of a baby is just the evidence they need to get rid of the tanners once and for all.

But the inquest into the baby's death is disrupted when the inn in which it is being held mysteriously burns down. Then Cragg himself faces a charge of lewdness, jeopardising his whole future as a coroner. But the fates have not finished playing with him just yet. The sudden and suspicious death of a very prominent person may just, with the help of Fidelis's sharp forensic skills, bring about Cragg's redemption...

Praise for Robin Blake:

'This is rollicking stuff. Cragg and Fidelis are an engaging duo, and their first investigation is like crossing Robert Louis Stevenson with The Archers' Financial Times

'Cragg's first-person narrative voice is nicely judged: historically informed and reticent in the right proportions' TLS

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Constable
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472122607
• ISBN 13: 9781472122605
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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