Black Drop - SUNDAY TIMES Historical Fiction Book of the Month

An atmospheric and brilliantly plotted historical thriller set in London during the uproar of the French Revolution.

About the author

Leonora Nattrass studied eighteenth-century literature and politics, and spent ten years as an English Literature lecturer, including eight at Nottingham Trent University. During this time she published several works on William Cobbett, and was a reviewer for The Year's Work in English Studies journal. She then moved to Cornwall, where she lives in a seventeenth-century house with seventeenth-century draughts, and spins the fleeces of her traditional Ryeland sheep into yarn. Black Drop is her first novel. Viper will publish the sequel charting Laurence Jago's adventures at sea, Blue Water, in 2022.

Summary

An atmospheric and brilliantly plotted historical thriller set in London during the uproar of the French Revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Leonora Nattrass
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2021
• EAN: 9781788165914
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-591-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Historical / General, Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799