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@2@@20@WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014.@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014.@21@@3@@2@London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors' prison.@3@@2@The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor and disease. And those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol's rutheless governor and his cronies.@3@@2@The trouble is, Tom Hawkins has never been good at following rules - even simple ones. And the recent grisly murder of a debtor, Captain Roberts, has brought further terror to the gaol. While the Captain's beautiful widow cries for justice, the finger of suspicion points only one way: to the sly, enigmatic figure of Samuel Fleet.@3@@2@Some call Fleet a devil, a man to avoid at all costs. But Tom Hawkins is sharing his cell. Soon, Tom's choice is clear: get to the truth of the murder - or be the next to die.@3@@2@A twisting mystery, a dazzling evocation of early 18th Century London, THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA is a thrilling debut novel full of intrigue and suspense.@3@
About the author
Antonia Hodgson has written four acclaimed historical crime novels. She won the CWA Historical Dagger for
The Devil in the Marshalsea, and her work has also been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year.
Antonia's first (unpublished) novel was a gothic fantasy and her dream has always been to write an epic series, given the chance. In 2020 she set to work on
The Raven Scholar and is now busy finishing its sequel
.
Summary
A murderer on the loose . . . in prison.
