Blood & Sugar
24 January 2019
Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
‘A page-turner of a crime thriller . . . This is a world conveyed with convincing, terrible clarity’ – C. J. Sansom
Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd-Robinson.
June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark.
Some days later,...
Details
24 January 2019
448 pages
9781509880782
Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
Laura Shepherd-Robinson has written a story that is not only a page-turner of a crime thriller but, to an extent unusual in historical novels, where you feel you really are listening to a voice from the eighteenth century. This is a world conveyed with convincing, terrible clarityC. J. Sansom
Utterly compelling . . . The next star of historical crime fiction has arrivedR. N. Morris
A book to be savoured. Characters and setting so vividly depicted, and a story both bold and heart-breaking. I can’t recommend it enoughJo Jakeman, author of Sticks and Stones
A striking historical thriller that exposes the horrors of Britain’s slave trade . . . Few first novels are as accomplished as thisAndrew Taylor