LEONORA NATTRASS In Person With Paul
LEONORA NATTRASS chats to PAUL BURKE about her historical mystery thriller SCARLET TOWN, Laurence Jago, 18th century history, rotten boroughs and sapient hog.
SCARLET TOWN 1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large...
Disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago and his larger-than-life employer the journalist William Philpott have escaped America - and Philpott's near imprisonment for libel - by the skin of their teeth. They return to Laurence's home town of Helston, Cornwall, in the hope of rest and recuperation, but instead find themselves in the middle of a…
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