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Cold Cruel Winter
Chris Nickson
Second in the highly-acclaimed Richard Nottingham historical mystery series
1732. Richard Nottingham, Constable of the City of Leeds, is grieving the death of his daughter, but he must rouse himself from his lethargy when the body of wealthy wool merchant Samuel Graves is discovered, his throat slit, the skin razed from his back. Why would the killer want Graves' skin? When Nottingham receives a slim, bound volume entitled The Journal of a Wronged Man he discovers the shocking answer - and it hurls him into a desperate battle for survival against a ruthless killer with old scores to settle . . .
UK edition
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Publication Date: 26 May 2011
ISBN: 9781780290058
Price: £19.99
Dimensions: 141 x 222
Extent: 224 pages
US edition
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Publication Date: 1 Sep 2011
ISBN: 9781780290058
Price: $28.95
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5
Extent: 224 pages
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Come the Fear
"Fans of Sally Spencer and Cynthia Harrod-Eagles will enjoy this one" Library Journal on Aftermath
A note that is discovered hidden in a wall cavity of a London hotel leads Detective Inspector Harry Vicary and his team to a burial site containing the charred bones of two men. Their investigation quickly leads them into a dark and brutal world, but who were the dead men and how did they meet their fate? To solve the case Vicary must uncover what happened at a notorious gangland garden party - a party from which two men never returned . . .
The Constant Lovers
A tale of greed, ambition and thwarted love in eighteenth-century Leeds
July, 1732. On a hot summer morning, Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, is called out when a young woman is found stabbed to death among the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey. In her pocket is a love note: 'Soon we'll be together and our hearts can sing loud, my love, W.' What happened to the maid who accompanied her mistress on her final, fatal journey? Who is the mysterious 'W' who signed the note? Nottingham must delve into the dark secrets of the rich and influential to uncover the truth.