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A Grave for a Thief by Douglas Skelton

8 August 2024 By Editor

Buy A Grave for a Thief by Douglas Skelton

It’s 1716.

Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him.

He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and has intimated to the Company of Rogues that he is willing to share them.

The problem is, he has vanished.

Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – still recovering from a duel with death upon the frozen Thames, is tasked with finding him.

The trail takes him from the dark slums of London to a quiet village in the north of England, where all is not as it seems.

But while he hunts for the missing man, someone else may be stalking him… someone with murder in their heart.

A Grave for a Thief by Douglas Skelton is published in paperback on 8 August, 2024.

Read Douglas’s feature about how he went about writing historical fiction — it’s got some useful tips.

Our list of over 180 historical books coming out this year may give you some more reading ideas.

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