Book description
A PERILOUS INVESTIGATION IN THE HEART OF LONDON RAVAGED BY THE
GREAT FIRE
September 1666. Meeting in the ashes of a devastated London,
Christopher Redmayne, an architect with Cavalier instincts, and
Jonathan Bale, a Puritan constable, are hardly kindred spirits.
Redmayne dedicates himself to rebuilding the city that Bale believes
was destroyed by its own inner corruption.
The two men are thrown together when they catch thieves who are
stealing from the house that Redmayne has designed for Sir Ambrose
Northcott. The foul murder of Sir Ambrose joins them again, albeit
reluctantly, in a complex and dangerous investigation that takes
them through the brothels and gaming houses of Restoration London,
right to the heart of the King's court.
Edward Marston was born and brought up in South Wales. A full-time
writer for over thirty years, he has worked in radio, film, television
and the theatre and is a former chairman of the Crime Writers'
Association. Prolific and highly successful, he is equally at home
writing children's books or literary criticism, plays or biographies.
The King's Evil is the first book in the series featuring
architect Christopher Redmayne and the Puritan Constable Jonathan
Bale, set in Restoration London.
