Synopsis
A gripping historical crime thriller set in the dark heart of London's slave trade
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 – learns that an old friend, passionate abolitionist Tad Archer,...
Details
09 January 2020464 pages
9781509880799Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Laura Shepherd-Robinson has written a story that is not only a page-turner of a 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 clarity’C. J. Sansom, author of Dissolution, Tombland and Winter in Madrid
A novel of astonishing skillFinancial Times
A tightly plotted crime story with vivid details of Georgian EnglandSunday Times
Stunning . . . Blood & Sugar is a harrowing and brutal epic [that] shocks and thrills in equal measureExpress
