The King's Evil - Tapa dura

Praise for the Domesday books: 'The period atmosphere is nicely done...and Delchard and Bret make an enterprising pair of sleuths' Sunday Telegraph; 'These are excellently written and entertaining books, unreservedly recommended' Mystery News; 'Marston combines his sensitive feel for history with a bracing simplicity of language, ably evoking the flavor of life in rougher times than ours' Publishers Weekly

Praise for THE KING'S EVIL

'Marston is probably the best of our British writers of historical crime-stories' Birmingham Post

'A truly masterful storyteller... A fascinating plot, dressed it in luscious historical trappings, and created characters that are alive and human' The Poisoned Pen

Christopher Redmayne is a true Restoration man. After the destruction wrought by the Great Fire, he is also one of the architects working to restore London to its vibrant and bustling state. Jonathan Bale is a Puritan constable who firmly believes that the fire would never have happened under Oliver Cromwell. Bale has an unshakeable sense of right and wrong which has made him an excellent upholder of the law and a fierce critic of the newly restored Court. At first sight, meeting by chance in the ashes of the ruined city, Redmayne and Bale would seem to each other to embody all that irritates them most in their fellow man. However, thrown together by a fatal stabbing, they will have to bury their differences - or risk the murderer claiming an unthinkable victim...