The Kingsbridge Plot
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- £2.49
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- £2.49
Publisher Description
The year is 1775, a full century after The Dutchman, and Sheriff Pieter Tonneman's descendants are well established in the now-thriving metropolis of New-York.
History is being made in the political turmoil of colonial America, but in New-York murder becomes the focus of everyone's attention when a savagely decapitated body is discovered.
After a long absence, John Tonneman returns from medical studies in London to his native city, now torn between Tories and Patriots as the colonies race headlong into armed rebellion.
Resolved to steer clear of politics, the earnest young physician finds himself drawn into the violence by his growing feelings for an adventurous young woman from the Sephardic Jewish community.
A second, horrifying murder reveals that there is a killer on the loose with a taste for redheaded women.
Hunting the mad killer, Tonneman makes a connection between the dead woman and a plot to assassinate General George Washington.
Another woman is murdered and the General barely escapes with his life as John Tonneman pursues a killer and uncovers a conspiracy through the jumbled rush of events that culminate in the momentous July of 1776.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Part fiction, part fact and wholly entertaining, this historical mystery set in ``New-York'' on the eve of the Revolutionary War chronicles further adventures of the family Tonneman, introduced in The Dutchman . Revealing the identity of the villain at the start, the author, a husband-and-wife team, focuses on the chase, re-creating the sights, smells, customs and politics of a city whose rioting patriots are ruled by an English royal governor from a ship in the Narrows. Into this anarchic scene steps John Tonneman, returning after studying medicine for seven years in London to take the position of city coroner. The dogged, courageous John hunts for a lunatic killer who, while usually preying on redheaded women, is also hired by loyalists to poison George Washington. Meanwhile, spunky 15-year-old Mariana Mendoza, daughter of a successful merchant, persuades John to throw his lot in with the rebels fighting for independence. Her decidedly feminist views are the only anachronism in a book otherwise vividly true to its period. In their individual careers, Annette Meyers writes the Smith and Wetzon mysteries, Martin the Patrick Hardy series.
