The Broken Token
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
Sometimes a man needs to bargain with the devil to stop evil. Especially when it reaches his own door. …
Introducing Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds Leeds, 1731: The town is beginning to grow wealthy from the wool trade. But only a few merchants see the real wealth. For most people, life is hand to mouth, survival from one day to the next. Life is cheap. And so is death. Richard Nottingham, the Constable of Leeds, believes he’s seen the worst of humanity in his time. But a sickening series of murders takes him deep into the horror of someone’s grotesque mind. Unable to find the killer, and pressed by the men who run Leeds, he’s forced to turn to a man who runs most of the crime in Leeds. A man whose history intertwines with his own. But the murders continue and come closer and closer to Nottingham’s own family. When answers do come, the truth brings him more than he bargained for…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Music journalist Nickson (The NPR Curious Listener s Guide to World Music) makes an impressive mystery debut, set in 1731 Leeds. Early one morning, constable Richard Nottingham s trusted deputy, John Sedgwick, bangs on his door to announce a double murder. In a poor neighborhood street, Nottingham recognizes dissenting preacher Daniel Morton, whose slashed corpse is entangled with the stabbed body of the constable s ex-serving girl, Pamela Watson, who d been like a third daughter to him before she left his household to marry a farm laborer. A token that Nottingham once gave Pamela, a penny cut in half to signify parted lovers, appears to have been torn from a ribbon around Pamela s neck. Nottingham and Sedgwick interview whores, pimps, and procurers in an effort to catch the lunatic who slays three couples in six days. Multiple threads of the case come together at the end in an unexpected and disturbing conclusion.
