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Author MacLean, Shona, author.

Title The black friar / S.G. MacLean.

Publication Info. London Quercus Publishing, 2016.
©2017

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 Wethersfield Public Library - Mysteries  MYS MACLEAN    Check Shelf
Description 456 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Series Damian Seeker ; bk. 2
MacLean, Shona. Damian Seeker ; bk. 2.
Note First published in Great Britain in 2016.
Summary Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's guard, must eradicate both in this twisty, action-packed historical thriller for fans of CJ Sansom, Rory Clements and The Three Musketeers. 'MacLean skilfully weaves together the disparate threads of her plot to create a gripping tale of crime and sedition in an unsettled city' Sunday TimesLondon, 1655, and Cromwell's regime is under threat from all sides. Damian Seeker, Captain of Cromwell's Guard, is all too aware of the danger facing Cromwell. Parliament resents his control of the Army while the Army resents his absolute power. In the east end of London, a group of religious fanatics plots rebellion. In the midst of all this, a stonemason uncovers a perfectly preserved body dressed in the robes of a Dominican friar, bricked up in a wall in the crumbling Black Friars. Ill-informed rumours and speculation abound, but Seeker instantly recognises the dead man. What he must discover is why he met such a hideous end, and what his connection was to the children who have started to disappear from around the city. Unravelling these mysteries is challenging enough, and made still harder by the activities of dissenters at home, Royalist plotters abroad and individuals who are not what they seem...
Subject Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Fiction.
Seeker, Damian (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Roundheads -- Fiction.
Royalists -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Missing children -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Fiction.
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. (OCoLC)fst00055660
Missing children. (OCoLC)fst01023685
Murder -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01029788
Roundheads. (OCoLC)fst01100724
Royalists. (OCoLC)fst01100852
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1649-1660
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Spy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726748
Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755
Thrillers (Fiction)
Spy fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781782068471 (paperback)
1782068473 (paperback)
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