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 Dissolution. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Winner of the Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award 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, London – 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 Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year
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The ugliness of the Slave Trade in the US is very adequately discussed. The same for the UK is less well so. It did not occur on British soil, hence the less we say about it the better. But the English were just as complicit in the horrors, and just because it happened “in the colonies” is no reason for it being glossed over. This is a book of Historical Fiction, but like all good historical fiction that i love it helps educate and inform me of things I did not know, and will spur me to learn more.
Quality crime novel, horrific subject matter, slavery, child trafficking, government corruption. NO this isn't set now, it's set in London in 18th century. This is a story based on fact and it's important we hear stories like this. Brilliant.
I read the second book - Daughters of Night - first, and liked it much better than this one. I find the plot convoluted and the story rather drawn out. It could have been way shorter.
