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The House of Lamentations: the nailbiting historical thriller in the award-winning Seeker series

S.G. MacLean

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'One of the best historical crime series out there' Crime 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?

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Praise for The House of Lamentations: the nailbiting historical thriller in the award-winning Seeker series

  • You won't find many period crime novels that match The Seeker series for insight and evocation of time and place - NB magazineComplex and gripping ... this high-quality, deliciously moody series continues to deliver. I long for more - For Winter NightsExcellent at conveying the insecurities and unsettling memories that bedevil Cromwell's dying Protectorate - Daily MailMacLean's light touch portrait of a hard man with a softer core is what makes these books so memorable - The Times

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S.G. MacLean

S.G. MacLean

S.G. MacLean (Shona) has a PhD in History from the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of two historical crime series - the Alexander Seaton series, set in seventeenth century Scotland and the Damian Seeker series, set in Oliver Cromwell's London, for which she has twice won the CWA Historical Dagger. Her standalone Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness, was Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2023. Shona lives in Conon Bridge, Scotland.

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