RapscallionMatthew Hawkwood, ex soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow up to Ratcatcher. For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse than the gallows: the hulks. Former man o' wars, now converted to prison ships, their fearsome reputation guarantees a sentence served in the most dreadful conditions. Few survive. Escape, it's said, is

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Lucky to the tune of 250

and the prison falls into the hands of its inmates

and larger-than-life characters make promises they can't keep

The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father

There is no warning

She knows she is more talented than her brothers

'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars

that more murders are certain to follow

'Historical fiction doesn't get much better than this' Angus Donald

After his home is attacked by faceless monsters in bowler hats

He must therefore attempt to be more conventional when faced with a case involving an attractive girl who is brutally killed