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The Drowned City
Karen Maitland
Works of: Fiction
Gunpowder and treason changed England forever. But the tides are turning and revenge runs deep.
1606. A year to the day that men were executed for conspiring to blow up Parliament, a towering wave devastates the Bristol Channel. Some proclaim God’s vengeance. Others seek to take advantage.
In London, Daniel Pursglove lies in prison waiting to die. But Charles FitzAlan, close adviser to King James I, has a job in mind that will free a man of Daniel’s skill from the horrors of Newgate. If he succeeds.
For Bristol is a hotbed of Catholic spies, and where better for the lone conspirator who evaded arrest, one Spero Pettingar, to gather allies than in the chaos of a drowned city? Daniel journeys there to investigate FitzAlan’s lead, but soon finds himself at the heart of a dark Jesuit conspiracy – and in pursuit of a killer.
CWA Awards
- CWA Historical Dagger - Longlisted
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Other books by Karen Maitland


Rivers of Treason

Traitor in the Ice

Company of Liars

A Gathering of Ghosts

The Plague Charmer

The Raven’s Head

The Vanishing Witch

Falcons of fire and ice

The Gallows Curse

The Owl Killers

The Vanishing Witch

Liars and Thieves

The Dangerous Arts of Alchemy

Wicked Children

The Sacred Stone (Medieval Murderers)

Hill of Bones (Medieval Murderers)

The First Murder (Medieval Murderers)

The False Virgin (Medieval Murderers)

The Deadliest Sin (Medieval Murderers)

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