The Shadows Of London Av Andrew Taylor

From the bestselling author of The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times best-seller and a Richard & Judy Book Club choice, comes another gripping historical crime novelOver 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!¿An absolute delight in a series that goes from strength to strength¿ S. G. McLean, prize-winning author of the Seeker series¿This is Taylor at his unassailable best¿ Financial TimesLondon 1671The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a man¿s brutally disfigured body is discovered in the ruins of an ancient almshouse, architect Cat Hakesby is ordered to stop restoration work. It is obvious he has been murdered, and Whitehall secretary James Marwood is ordered to investigate.It¿s possible the victim could be one of two local men who have vanished ¿ the first, a feckless French tutor connected to the almshouse¿s owner;the second, a possibly treacherous employee of the Council of Foreign Plantations.The pressure on Marwood mounts as Charles II¿s most influe