This, my thirteenth novel, is another not-so-cosy crime story set during another remarkable year, 1884, in the annals of the North Wales town of Wrexham, and its English neighbouring city, Chester.
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Alfred and Ettie Palmer are back for another stunning standalone Victorian mystery.
Wrexham, 1884. Eight years earlier they’d been warned never again to interfere with police business. But it seems their skills are needed once more. A body deliberately drowned but left abandoned on the banks of the River Dee. A mysterious tattoo. Then two further murders, each more bizarre than the last – killings which draw them ever further into a circle of unlikely allies, eccentric suspects, old enemies, and the murky world of Fenian plots and bombings. A kidnapping. An attempted rescue among the tombstones of Chester’s Overleigh Cemetery. And a terrifying May Day climax. But why Wrexham? Why the River Dee? And have the true culprits really been identified? Another glittering mystery by award-winning author David Ebsworth.
For all lovers of historical crime novels!
Already highly acclaimed, this is a cracking good mystery. Plenty of other surprises for readers too.
“David Ebsworth, a terrific storyteller, his passion for his subject and his characters grabs you by the throat.” (Elizabeth Buchan, bestselling author of The The Museum of Broken Promises, The New Mrs Clifton and I Can’t Begin To Tell You.)
“David Ebsworth’s immersive body of work demonstrates a keen eye for historical detail.” (Vaseem Khan, best-selling author and Chair of the UK Crime Writers’ Association.)
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