Blood & Sugar

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