Featuring:
Jack Blackjack:
The Reluctant Assassin
Don’t miss Jack’s latest story:
Death Comes in Threes
out in September!
“The comical hero provides an amusing instrument for exploring the mores and history of the period.”
Kirkus Reviews
REBELLION’S MESSAGE
Introducing Elizabethan cutpurse and adventurer Jack Blackjack in the first of a brand-new historical mystery series. January, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack knows he’s not going to have a good day when he wakes with a sore head next to a dead body in a tavern’s yard.
“Diverting … the main draw is high-spirited Jack, with his Bertie Woosterish commentary”
Publishers Weekly
A MURDER TOO SOON
Jack Blackjack is ordered to eliminate a spy in Princess Elizabeth’s household – but he arrives at Woodstock to discover that a murder has already been committed.
“Loads of twists and turns, a hilarious tale of criminal ineptitude”
Kirkus Reviews
A MISSED MURDER
When Jack Blackjack disobeys the orders of his spymaster, he enters dangerous waters in this lively Tudor mystery.
“The novel’s energetic pace never flags”
Publishers Weekly
THE DEAD DON’T WAIT
A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by the roadside – and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder.
DEATH COMES HOT
Jack Blackjack’s search for an executioner’s son ensnares him in a fiendish mesh of schemes.
“Enough suspects and red herrings to keep mystery fans intrigued”
Booklist
THE MOORLAND MURDERERS
Londoner Jack Blackjack finds himself a stranger in a strange land when he’s accused of murder in rural Devon.
THE MERCHANT MURDERERS
Jack Blackjack is on a simple mission: make it back home to his beloved London. It should be simple, right? Wrong.
“Entertaining … [with] wry humour”
Publishers Weekly
MURDERING THE MESSENGER
A week after Jack first lays eyes on the tempting Miss Rachel Nailor, she turns up horribly dead on the church vestry floor – and someone is trying to frame him for her murder! A fellow Lady Elizabeth sympathiser, Rachel Nailor was a woman with many secrets. But who would want Rachel dead – and Jack hanged for it?
