The Scent of Death

✍ Scribed by Taylor, Andrew

• Book ID: 108639098
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 595 KB
• Series: Edward Savill 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007213535

✦ Synopsis

WINNER of the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award 2013'Andrew Taylor wrote superb historical fiction long before Hilary Mantel was popular' Daily TelegraphFrom the No.1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a new historical thriller set during the American War of Independence. 'This is the story of a woman and a city. I saw the city first, shimmering from afar like the new Jerusalem in the setting sun. It was Sunday, 2nd August 1778.' Edward Savill, a London clerk from the American Department, is assigned to New York to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists caught on the wrong side of the American War of Independence. Surrounded by its enemies, British Manhattan is a melting pot of soldiers, profiteers, double agents and a swelling tide of refugees seeking justice from the Crown. Savill lodges with the respected Wintour family: the old Judge, his ailing wife and their enigmatic daughter-in-law Arabella. The family lives in limbo, praying for the safe return of...