The Scent of Death

Kindle, 481 pages

Published by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-00-749307-4
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ASIN:
B0095C0N9C
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August, 1778. British-controlled Manhattan is a melting pot of soldiers, traitors and refugees, surrounded by rebel forces as the American War of Independence rages on.

Into this simmering tension sails Edward Savill, a London clerk tasked with assessing the claims of loyalists who have lost out during the war.

Savill lodges with the ageing Judge Wintour, his ailing wife, and their enigmatic daughter-in-law Arabella. However, as Savill soon learns, what the Wintours have lost in wealth, they have gained in secrets.

The murder of a gentleman in the slums pulls Savill into the city’s underbelly. But when life is so cheap, why does one death matter? Because making a nation is a lucrative business, and some people cannot afford to miss out, whatever the price…

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Subjects

  • Fiction, thrillers, suspense
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, historical
  • New york (n.y.), fiction
  • United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, fiction