The King’s Evil

Winner of The HWA Gold Crown 2020 A royal scandal… A shocking murder… The stakes have never been higher… ‘One of the best historical crime writers today’ ‘If you like C. J. Sansom, or Hilary Mantel, you’ll love Andrew Taylor’ ‘Effortlessly authentic…gripping…moving and believable. An excellent work’ ‘This is historical crime fiction at its dazzling best’ ‘One of the best historical novelists around’ ‘A breathtakingly ambitious picture of an era’ ‘A masterclass in writing for the genre’ ‘Andrew Taylor is one of our finest storytellers' ‘Vivid and compelling’ ‘A novel filled with intrigue, duplicity, scandal and betrayal, whose author now vies with another master of the genre, C. J. Sansom’ ‘Taylor brings the 17th century to life so vividly that one can almost smell it’ ‘A most artful and delightful book, that will both amuse and chill’ From the No.1 bestselling author of and comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood at the time of King Charles II. Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold! Praise for Andrew Taylor