Susanna Gregory
The Westminster Poisoner
Setting The Westminster Poisoner during the festivities of Christmas and Twelfth Night of 1663-1664 gives Gregory ample opportunity to…
It is ten years since the Black Death reaped its harvest at Cambridge. Now, in the stifling summer of 1357,…
The Butcher of Smithfield
London 1663: Lord Clarendon’s spy Thomas Chaloner returns from a foreign assignment to an unfriendly greeting from his unreasonable paymaster.…
Blood on the Strand
Editors' choice
Spring 1663, the eve of the third year of the Restoration, but all is not well in the capital city.…
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