The Reckoning

£45 · Offered by Goldsboro Books

The 6th historical thriller featuring Matthew Hawkwood, Bow Street Runner and Spy, now hunting a killer on the loose in Regency London. London, 1813: Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood is summoned to a burial ground and finds the corpse of a young woman, murdered and cast into an open grave. At first the death is deemed to be of little consequence. But when Chief Magistrate James Read receives a direct order from the Home Office to abandon the case, Hawkwoods interest is piqued. His hunt for the killer will lead him from Londons backstreets into the heart of a government determined to protect its secrets at all costs. Only Hawkwoods contacts within the criminal underworld can now help. As the truth behind the girls murder emerges, setting in motion a deadly chain of events, Hawkwood learns the true meaning of loyalty and that the enemy is much closer to home than he ever imagined

• Binding: Hardcover

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