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  • The Devil In The Marshalsea

    A twisting mystery, a dazzling evocation of early 18th Century London, THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA is a thrilling debut novel full of intrigue and suspense.

    London, 1727 – and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses to the hell of a debtors’ prison.

    The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. ...

  • The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins

    A brilliant historical crime novel of Georgian London from the author of The Devil in the Marshalsea.

    London, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn. They call him a murderer. But Tom Hawkins is innocent and somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him.

    It is, of course, ...

  • A Death at Fountains Abbey

    'It crackles with wit and charm and cements Hawkins' place as the most lovable rogue in historical fiction.' Daily Express

    The new twisting mystery from the CWA Historical Dagger 2014 winner Antonia Hodgson.

    Late spring, 1728 and Thomas Hawkins has left London for the wild beauty of Yorkshire – forced on a mission he can’t refuse. John Aislabie, one of the wealthiest men in England, has been threatened with murder. ...