The Piccadilly Plot, Susanna Gregory
The Piccadilly Plot, Susanna Gregory
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The Piccadilly Plot
7

Author: Susanna Gregory

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Unabridged: 15 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2021

Synopsis

'Fans will be pleased to hear that Susanna Gregory has yet again hit on a winning formula of taking a likeable main character, involving him in a gripping plot and setting them within a commendably realistic setting. It is another bravura performance' - Historical Novels Review

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The seventh adventure in the Thomas Chaloner series.

Thomas Chaloner is relieved to be summoned back to London. His master, the Earl of Clarendon, has sent him to Tangier to investigate a case of corruption. Chaloner will be glad to be home, to be reunited with his new wife, but the trivial reason for his recall exasperates him - the theft of material from the construction site of Clarendon's embarrassingly sumptuous new house just north of Piccadilly.

Within hours of his return, Chaloner considers these thefts even more paltry as he is thrust into extra investigations involving threats of assassination, a stolen corpse and a scheme to frame the Queen for treason. Yet there are connections from them all which thread through the unfinished Clarendon House...

'Pungent with historical detail' (Irish Times)

'A richly imagined world of colourful medieval society and irresistible monkish sleuthing' (Good Book Guide)

'Corpses a-plenty, exciting action sequences and a satisfying ending' (Mystery People)

About Susanna Gregory

Susanna Gregory was a police officer in Leeds before taking up an academic career. She has served as an environmental consultant, worked eighteen field seasons in the polar regions, and has taught comparative anatomy and biological anthropology.She is the creator of the Matthew Bartholomew series of mysteries set in medieval Cambridge and the Thomas Chaloner adventures in Restoration London. She now lives in Wales with her husband, who is also a writer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens

Read this book in 2012, and its the 7th volume of the wonderful "Thomas Chaloner" series. This book is set in October in the year AD 1664, and Thomas Chaloner just returned from Tangier finds himself, with his new wife, in a London full in turmoil and concentrating in and around the newly constructed......more

Goodreads review by Sophie

Published: 10/10/2012 Author: Susanna Gregory Recommended for: fans of historical fiction This is another great addition to the Thomas Chaloner series. In this book Thomas returns back to London where within hours he is thinking about the thefts that have being going on and soon gets dragged into more......more

Goodreads review by Shirley

This is a highly complex historical espionage book. As usual Ms. Gregory uses her impeccable historical knowledge to craft a story around actual real historical people. She peoples each book with her own characters and the two mix and mingle, plot and counter-plot seemlessly. This book is a real pag......more

Goodreads review by Sue

I'm a huge fan of Susanna Gregory's Restoration London books and have them all but I don't think this was one of her best. Although the storyline is good - well plotted and the threads hold together well - I felt it could have done with a big edit. Sadly a bit 'skippy'.......more

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