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Blood & Sugar

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 Winter in Madrid. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown 2019 Winner of the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award 2020 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 - horribly tortured and branded with a slaver's mark. Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham - a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career - is visited by the sister of an old friend. Her brother, 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 2019 Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2019 Longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year 2020

About the Author :
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, Adrian.

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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’ A novel of astonishing skill A tightly plotted crime story with vivid details of Georgian England Stunning . . . Blood & Sugar is a harrowing and brutal epic [that] shocks and thrills in equal measure A striking historical thriller . . . Few first novels are as accomplished as this Epic, harrowing, thrilling, brutal, addictive. I read it flat out in one day Enthralling Magnificent . . . A tense and gripping historical thriller that shines an unwavering light on a dark period in British history. Unmissable. Phenomenal . . . A shoo-in for one of the books of the year A searing, ingeniously constructed story Extraordinary Truly addictive A passionate indictment of British involvement in the slave trade but it never neglects its duty to chill and thrill With a hugely likeable hero at its heart, this rich and beautifully written debut marks out Laura Shepherd-Robinson as a major new talent The finest Georgian intrigue A remarkably assured debut A page-turning dive into the torrid depths of London in the 1780s Gripping and original . . . I absolutely loved it Immersive and exhilarating . . . I was completely swept away Extraordinary, immersive, addictive and moving I can’t recommend it enough Utterly compelling . . . The next star of historical crime fiction has arrived The most absorbing, intelligent and breathtakingly atmospheric novel I’ve read in a long time I haven't read such an accomplished historical novel since I was introduced to C.J. Sansom. A gripping mystery . . . I loved it One of the best historical novels I’ve read in ages. 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. A brilliant book . . . Superb . . . Absolutely superb' One of the most sophisticated crime novels of the past few years 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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781509880799
  • Publisher: Pan MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Pan Books
  • Height: 196 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 314 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1509880798
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jan 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 132 mm


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