Blood on the Strand: Chaloner's Second Exploit in Restoration London (Thomas Chaloner Mysteries)...

Blood on the Strand: Chaloner's Second Exploit in Restoration London (Thomas Chaloner Mysteries) | Susanna Gregory | Espionage in 17 century England.

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	Blood on the Strand: Chaloner's Second Exploit in Restoration London (Thomas Chaloner Mysteries) Susanna Gregory Little, Brown Book Group, 2008 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Rebellion is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner, spy for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin, but soon realizes that England's capital is no haven of peace. He is ordered to investigate the shooting of a beggar during a royal procession. He soon learns the man is no vagrant, but someone with links to the powerful Company of Barber-Surgeons. His master, the Earl of Clarendon, is locked in a deadly feud with the Earl of Bristol, and an innocent man is about to be hanged in Newgate. Chaloner is embroiled in a desperate race against time to protect Clarendon, to discover the true identity of the beggar's murderer, and to save a blameless man from the executioner's noose.

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The Author's books are Always a Joy to Read

Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. The author now has a number of excellent books to her name, primarily medieval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew. This book is the second in a series featuring Restoration London and having the lead character Thomas Chaloner, a somewhat reluctant spy for the feared Secretary of State, John Thurloe, London is a bustling thriving City and there is much work for a man such as Chaloner.

The year is 1663 and Thomas Chaloner a member of the King's intelligence service returns to London from Ireland, after assisting in thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin. Chaloner realises that feeling in the capital have changed since he left, there is a taste of rebellion in the London air. While investigating the shooting of a supposed beggar during a royal event, Chaloner discovers that far from being a beggar the man has links to the Company of Barber-Surgeons.

Meanwhile is master, the Earl of Clarendon is involved in a feud with the Earl of Bristol and to cap it all an innocent man is about to take the long drop in Newgate prison. Chaloner has his work cut out trying to protect Clarendon, discover who murdered the supposed vagrant and try to save an innocent man from the executioner.

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Espionage in 17 century England.

This book is set in London in the spring of 1663. This is near the beginning of the Reformation when all of the United Kingdom is trying to get over Cromwell's Puritan reign. Charles II is back as monarch, and he and his entourage are involved in all kinds of intrigue. The quarrel between the Earl of Clarendon and the earl of Bristol was at its height at this time, and there is more than enough work for Chaloner as he spies for the Earl of Clarendon. It is also a time of great public interest in the science of disection. Barber/Surgeons went to great lengths to get the cadavers that they required for their studies. Chaloner finds himself in the middle of intrigue, body snatchers, and murder and mayhem.
The best thing about Ms. Gregory's books is the historical fact that she builds her fiction around, and that is very apparent here. She makes Restoration England come alive under her pen. This is not an era that has a lot of fiction built around it, so it is interesting to see what life was like then.

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