'The best historical crime novel I will read this year' - The Times'Spectacularly brilliant . . .
One of the most enjoyable and enduring stories I have ever read' - James O'Brien, journalist, author and LBC Presenter'This is right up there with the best of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor' - Amanda Craig, author of The Golden RuleFrom the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson's Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom...
'The best historical crime novel I will read this year' - The Times'Spectacularly brilliant . . .
The Sunday Times Top Five BestsellerA BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club PickA Guardian Best Crime and Thrillers of the Year Pick'This rich, complex and haunting Dickensian epic is a triumph of the Gothic genre' — Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealAn epic and sweeping mystery set in Georgian high society, Laura Shepherd-Robinson's The Square of Sevens is a dazzling story offering up intrigue, heartbreak, and audacious twists. This is your story, Red. You must tell it well .
. . A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish...
The Sunday Times Top Five BestsellerA BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club PickA Guardian Best Crime and Thrillers of the Year Pick'This rich...
June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark.
Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham – a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career – is visited by the sister of an old friend. Her brother, passionate abolitionist Tad Archer, had been about to expose a secret that he believed could cause irreparable damage to the British slaving industry. He’d said people were trying to kill him, and now he is missing . . .
To discover what happened to Tad, Harry is forced to pick up the threads of his...
June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark.
'Astonishing. The Art of a Lie is Laura Shepherd-Robinson at the height of her considerable powers. A rare and wonderful story' - Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colours of the Dark'A twisty confection as subtle and delicious as one of Hannah's iced creams.
I loved it' - Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10The Art of a Lie is a beguiling cat-and-mouse thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Square of Sevens, Laura Shepherd-Robinson. A 2025 BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick of the summer!That’s the trouble with stories, especially...
'Astonishing. The Art of a Lie is Laura Shepherd-Robinson at the height of her considerable powers. A rare and wonderful story' - Chris W...
