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Blood & Sugar
Percival Everett
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Description for Blood & Sugar
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‘A page-turner of a crime thriller . . . This is a world conveyed with convincing, terrible clarity’ – C. J. Sansom, author of Dissolution.
Winner of the HWA Debut Crown
Winner of the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award
Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd-Robinson for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor.
June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock, London – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark.
Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham – a war hero embarking upon a ... Read morepromising parliamentary career – learns that an old friend, passionate abolitionist Tad Archer, had been about to expose a secret that he believed could cause irreparable damage to the British slaving industry. He’d said people were trying to kill him, and now he is missing . . .
To discover what happened to Tad, Harry is forced to pick up the threads of his friend’s investigation, delving into the heart of the conspiracy Tad had unearthed. His investigation will threaten his political prospects, his family’s happiness, and force a reckoning with his past, risking the revelation of secrets that have the power to destroy him.
And that is only if he can survive the mortal dangers awaiting him in Deptford . . .
'A brilliant book . . . Absolutely superb' – James O'Brien
Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger
Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger
Longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year
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About Percival Everett
Laura Shepherd-Robinson was born in Bristol in 1976. She has a BSc in Politics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics. Laura worked in politics for nearly twenty years before re-entering normal life to complete an MA in Creative Writing at City University. She lives in London with her husband, ... Read moreAdrian. Blood & Sugar is her first novel. Show Less
Reviews for Blood & Sugar
Laura Shepherd-Robinson has written a story that is not only a page-turner of a thriller but, to an extent unusual in historical novels, where you feel you really are listening to a voice from the eighteenth century. This is a world conveyed with convincing, terrible clarity’
C. J. Sansom, author of Dissolution, Tombland and Winter in Madrid A novel ... Read moreof astonishing skill
Financial Times
A tightly plotted crime story with vivid details of Georgian England
Sunday Times
Stunning . . . Blood & Sugar is a harrowing and brutal epic [that] shocks and thrills in equal measure
Express
A striking historical thriller . . . Few first novels are as accomplished as this
Andrew Taylor, author of The Ashes of London Epic, harrowing, thrilling, brutal, addictive. I read it flat out in one day
C. J. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man Enthralling
Daily Telegraph
Magnificent . . . A tense and gripping historical thriller that shines an unwavering light on a dark period in British history. Unmissable.
Antonia Hodgson, author of The Devil in the Marshalsea Phenomenal . . . A shoo-in for one of the books of the year
David Young, author of Stasi Child A searing, ingeniously constructed story
The Times
Extraordinary
Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little Lies Truly addictive
Jenny Quintana, author of The Missing Girl A passionate indictment of British involvement in the slave trade but it never neglects its duty to chill and thrill
Sunday Express
With a hugely likeable hero at its heart, this rich and beautifully written debut marks out Laura Shepherd-Robinson as a major new talent
Fiona Cummins, author of Rattle The finest Georgian intrigue
The Times Crime Club
A remarkably assured debut
Elizabeth Fremantle, author of The Queen's Gambit A page-turning dive into the torrid depths of London in the 1780s
Mary Paulson-Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker Gripping and original . . . I absolutely loved it
Karen Hamilton, author of The Perfect Girlfriend Immersive and exhilarating . . . I was completely swept away
Holly Seddon, author of Love Will Tear Us Apart Extraordinary, immersive, addictive and moving
Olivia Kiernan, author of Too Close to Breath I can’t recommend it enough
Jo Jakeman, author of Sticks and Stones Utterly compelling . . . The next star of historical crime fiction has arrived
R. N. Morris The most absorbing, intelligent and breathtakingly atmospheric novel I’ve read in a long time
Chris Whitaker I haven't read such an accomplished historical novel since I was introduced to C.J. Sansom.
Jo Spain A gripping mystery . . . I loved it
Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request One of the best historical novels I’ve read in ages.
Kaite Welsh, author of The Wages of Sin Deptford, a gateway to and from Britain’s expanding empire, is evoked in pungent detail. The British slave trade was an appalling episode in our history and the novel is unflinching in its refusal to sentimentalise motives or to row back on the savagery of the times.
Daily Mail
A brilliant book . . . Superb . . . Absolutely superb'
James O'Brien, presenter of LBC Radio and bestselling author of How To Be Right One of the most sophisticated crime novels of the past few years
The Critic
Read Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, but read Blood & Sugar first: a) because it's brilliant, and b) because the characters overlap. They're both murder mysteries set in a meticulously and hyper-vividly drawn 18th-century London. The first is eye-opening about slavery, the second is about prostitution, or rather the first is about race and the second is about woman. Total page-turners
India Knight
Sunday Times
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