by Susanna Gregory · Sphere · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780751537581
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«A Conspiracy of Violence» is Susanna Gregory's historical mystery novel, published by Sphere in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Thomas Chaloner, a reluctant spy, returns from Holland and seeks employment in Restoration London. His former boss, John Thurloe, recommends him to Lord Clarendon to watch for plots. Chaloner discovers that another ex-agent has died, and his investigation in the Tower of London reveals that greed and self-interest dominate the powerful.
First installment of the Thomas Chaloner series, also known as Adventures of Thomas Chaloner.
For readers of historical crime fiction and mysteries set in seventeenth-century London.
Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century Cambridge.
