Book description
A beautiful woman. An unrequited love. An excuse for murder.
Araminta Jewell is one of the beauties of her day. Even her
marriage to the staid and ugly Sir Martin Culthorpe has not
discouraged her hordes of admirers. It is during her first sitting
for a portrait painted by the fashionable French artist Jean-Paul
Villemot that the architect Christopher Redmayne meets the lovely
Lady Culthorpe, although he has heard much about her through his
brother Henry, one of her most ardent pursuers. Before the portrait
can be finished and revealed, however, Sir Martin is murdered.
Joining fores with his good friend, the puritan constable Jonathan
Bale, Christopher embarks on a quest to discover the killer's identity.
In his latest Restoration mystery, Edward Marston, the master of
historical detail, reveals the dark and often debauched depths of
seventeenth-century London.
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 Repentant Rake is the third book in the series featuring
architect Christopher Redmayne and the Puritan Constable Jonathan
Bale, set in Restoration London.
