‘S. G. MacLean can make any historical period sing with life’ Antonia Hodgson

By the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II. A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Gruesome executions begin to take place and the hunt intensifies for those who have gone into hiding at home or abroad.

Although not a regicide, staunch Republican Damian Seeker is on a list of traitors to the king. Royalist spy, Lady Anne Winter, is employed to find evidence of guilt or innocence among the names on this Winter List. Seeker has fled England but his beloved daughter Manon remains, married to Seeker’s friend, the lawyer Lawrence Ingolby, and living in York.

As the conduit to her father and to others on the Winter List and surrounded by spies and watchers, Manon lives in constant danger and fear of discovery. One of those spies is closer than even she could have imagined.

Perfect for fans of Robert Harris and Andrew Taylor.

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Praise for The Winter List

‘A wonderful storyteller‘ The Times

‘Vividly imaginative, this builds the world of 1660 from the ground up, with all its romance and tragedy‘ Sun

‘A propulsive plot . . . well-researched and fascinating‘ Guardian

‘Gripping fiction with historical fact’ Sunday Times

‘What a fabulous book . . . there is murder, there is intrigue, there is revenge‘ 5* Reader Review

‘Kept me hooked right up to the end’ 5* Reader Review

‘A glorious tale of revenge and retribution . . . Highly recommended‘ 5* Reader Review

‘S. G. MacLean can make any historical period sing with life’ Antonia Hodgson

By the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II. A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Gruesome executions begin to take place and the hunt intensifies for those who have gone into hiding at home or abroad.

Although not a regicide, staunch Republican Damian Seeker is on a list of traitors to the king. Royalist spy, Lady Anne Winter, is employed to find evidence of guilt or innocence among the names on this Winter List. Seeker has fled England but his beloved daughter Manon remains, married to Seeker’s friend, the lawyer Lawrence Ingolby, and living in York.

As the conduit to her father and to others on the Winter List and surrounded by spies and watchers, Manon lives in constant danger and fear of discovery. One of those spies is closer than even she could have imagined.

Perfect for fans of Robert Harris and Andrew Taylor.

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Praise for The Winter List

‘A wonderful storyteller‘ The Times

‘Vividly imaginative, this builds the world of 1660 from the ground up, with all its romance and tragedy‘ Sun

‘A propulsive plot . . . well-researched and fascinating‘ Guardian

‘Gripping fiction with historical fact’ Sunday Times

‘What a fabulous book . . . there is murder, there is intrigue, there is revenge‘ 5* Reader Review

‘Kept me hooked right up to the end’ 5* Reader Review

‘A glorious tale of revenge and retribution . . . Highly recommended‘ 5* Reader Review

‘This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride’ THE TIMES

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.

Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life, working as a bookseller in Inverness. One day, after helping several of his regular customers, he notices a stranger lurking in the upper gallery of his shop, poring over his collection. But the man refuses to say what he’s searching for and only leaves when Iain closes for the night.

The next morning Iain opens up shop and finds the stranger dead, his throat cut, and the murder weapon laid out in front of him – a sword with a white cockade on its hilt, the emblem of the Jacobites. With no sign of the killer, Iain wonders whether the stranger discovered what he was looking for – and whether he paid for it with his life. He soon finds himself embroiled in a web of deceit and a series of old scores to be settled in the ashes of war.

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PRAISE FOR THE BOOKSELLER OF INVERNESS

‘Fresh and intriguing . . . Her best yet’ ANDREW TAYLOR

‘Everything you could ask for from a historical thriller’ ANTONIA HODGSON

‘An intricately wrought, compulsively page-turning tale’ CRAIG RUSSELL

‘A first rate historical thriller’ 5* READER REVIEW

‘From the moment I began reading I was hooked’ 5* READER REVIEW

‘Hugely entertaining . . . fast paced, twisting and turning’ 5* READER REVIEW

‘Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion’ Sunday Times

Summer, 1658, and the Republic may finally be safe: the combined Stuart and Spanish forces have been heavily defeated by the English and French armies on the coast of Flanders, and the King’s cause appears finished.

Yet one final, desperate throw of the dice is planned. And who can stop them if not Captain Damian Seeker?

The fifth gripping outing for Seeker in this acclaimed and award-winning series of historical thrillers. Will his legacy endure?

It is 1628, Charles 1 is on the throne, and the British Crown is finally taking control of Ulster.

Returning to his rooms one night, Alexander Seaton is shocked to find a stranger standing there – a man who could be his double. His name is Sean O’Neill, and he carries a plea for help from Maeve O’Neill, forbidding matriarch of Alexander’s mother’s family in Ireland. All those who bear their blood have been placed under a poet’s curse: one by one they are going to die. Only Alexander is immune, his O’Neill heritage a secret from all but his closest family.

Alexander travels to Ulster, to find himself at the heart of a family divided by secrets and bitter resentments. As he seeks out the author of the curse, he becomes increasingly embroiled in the conflict until – confronted with murder within his own family – his liberty and, finally, his life, are at stake.