Blood & Sugar
24 January 2019Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
‘A page-turner of a crime thriller . . . This is a world conveyed with convincing, terrible clarity’
C. J. Sansom
Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd-Robinson.
June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark.
Some days later, Captain...
Details
24 January 2019791 minutes
Ben Onwukwe
9781509880812Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
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
A novel of astonishing skillFinancial Times
A tightly plotted crime story with vivid details of Georgian EnglandSunday Times
Stunning . . . Blood & Sugar is a harrowing and brutal epic [that] shocks and thrills in equal measureExpress
