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Great Tales from English History, Vol 2: Joan of Arc, the Princes in the Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Isaac Newton & More

Robert Lacey

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Killing Beauties

Pete Langman

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In a world made for men, Susan Hyde is no ordinary woman. And no one would suspect that the sister...

Historical Fiction Oliver Cromwell Female Spies Espionage

The Protector (William Falkland #2)

S.J. Deas

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Autumn,1646. The First Civil War is over, and England licks its wounds. But the killing is not yet...

The Royalist (William Falkland #1)

S.J. Deas

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William Falkland is a dead man. A Royalist dragoon who fought against Parliament, he is currently...

The Seeker: 1: Damian Seeker

S.G. Maclean

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WINNER OF THE 2015 CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of...

David McK (3520 KP) rated The Royalist (William Falkland #1) in Books

Apr 18, 2022

Set during the period of the English Civil Wars, I have to say that I found this to be rather unusual in that it is not about (per se) the wars themselves: rather, it is set in the New Model Army camp over a winter period, between hostilities, with William Falkland (the Royalist of the title) plucked from his prison cell by none other than Oliver Cromwell himself and sent to investigate reports of suicides/disturbances in the camp.

Reading very much like a ECW version of a whodunnit, with the author - in the afterword - not at all shy to point out the influences of the hard-boiled detective hero/film noir of the 40s (think Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler) on this work.