The Plague Road
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'Witty and amazing, L. C. Tyler has a wicked sense of humour' M. C. Beaton
1665, and the Great Plague has London in its grip. Where better, then, to hide a murdered man than among the corpses on their way to the Plague pit?
When a supposed Plague victim is found with a knife in his back, John Grey, now a successful lawyer, is called in to investigate. The dead man was known to be carrying a compromising letter from the Duke of York to the French ambassador. Now the letter has vanished and Secretary of State Lord Arlington wants it.
But Arlington is not the only one trying to recover the letter. Somebody has killed once trying to obtain it - and is prepared to kill again. Grey must set off on a journey through Plague-ravaged England to fulfil his commission and keep himself safe from his enemies - if the Plague doesn't get him first...
Praise for L.C. Tyler
'Tyler juggles his characters, story wit and clever one liners with perfect balance' The Times
'A historical thriller, but one written with tongue firmly in cheek . . . Tyler is a witty writer, and this third outing for Grey is great fun' - Sunday Times
'An exciting, well-plotted and brilliantly witty historical mystery' For Winter Nights
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tyler's stellar third novel featuring astute London attorney John Grey (after 2016's A Masterpiece of Corruption) makes the most of its grim setting—a city in the grip of the Great Plague in 1665. Jem, a cart attendant responsible for transporting the pestilence victims' corpses, notices something odd as his haul is being dumped into a burial pit—one of the bodies has a knife sticking out of its back. Jem reports this find, and the puzzle comes to Grey's attention via Lord Arlington, who runs Charles II's spy network. Arlington discloses that the victim was Charles Fincham, an actor undertaking a sensitive mission involving the French ambassador. Fincham was carrying a letter from the Duke of York to the ambassador, and it's gone missing, a dangerous development given that the king, the duke's brother, was unaware of the duke's correspondence with a representative of a rival country. Grey accepts the assignment of finding the missive, which becomes trickier after he learns the job may be motivated by a desire to harm, not help, the duke. Authentic period detail enhances the well-crafted plot. Fans of C.J. Sansom will be eager for more Grey.
