Death Among the Ruins

Awards:   Nominated for Agatha Award - Best Historical Novel 2024 (UK) Nominated for Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel 2024 (United States)
Author:   Susanna Calkins
Publisher:   Canongate Books
Edition:   Main
ISBN:  

9781448306145


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   06 June 2023
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Awards

  • Nominated for Agatha Award - Best Historical Novel 2024 (UK)
  • Nominated for Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel 2024 (United States)

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Author:   Susanna Calkins
Publisher:   Canongate Books
Imprint:   Severn House
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9781448306145


ISBN 10:   1448306140
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   06 June 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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This series keeps getting better * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>The Cry of the Hangman</b> * Packed with intriguing historical details, which ably support a clever plot and a captivating heroine * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>The Cry of the Hangman</b> * Creepy and ingenious * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> on <b>The Cry of the Hangman</b> * A crisply written, cleverly plotted, and nicely detailed historical mystery, with a lively heroine and a satisfying ending * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>The Sign of the Gallows</b> * Lavish period detail, romantic tension, and a complex puzzle make the heroine's fifth adventure one of her best * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> on <b>The Sign of the Gallows</b> * Calkins makes fine use of advances in mathematics and cryptography of this period, while also drawing in the chaos of the Great Fire and plague in London as agents of change in society. For anyone interested in 17th-century England, this mystery is a treat * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>The Sign of the Gallows</b> * An involving tale. Solid historical mystery, with intriguing hints about the future * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>A Death Along the River Fleet</b> * A nice option for devotees of Anne Rutherford and Samuel Thomas * <b>Library Journal</b> on <b>A Death Along the River Fleet</b> * An enjoyably complex mystery with a clever heroine neatly interweaves detailed historical background with fascinating characters * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> on <b>A Death Along the River Fleet</b> *


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Susanna Calkins is the author of the award-winning Lucy Campion mystery series, set in seventeenth-century London, and the Speakeasy mysteries, set in Prohibition-era Chicago. She has a PhD in history and works at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she currently lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two sons.

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