A compelling new 18th century whodunnit from the acclaimed author of THE GRENADILLO BOX.
Janet Gleeson is the author of works of fiction and nonfiction which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her books include The Arcanum, which was Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times bestseller, The Money Maker, An Aristocratic Affair and The Lifeboat Baronet, as well as three historical crime novels. She has a BA Hons in English and Art History from Nottingham University and an MA from Birkbeck College, University of London. She worked at Sotheby's and Bonhams where she specialised in old master paintings before starting her writing career as a columnist for House & Garden and an editor for Reed Books. She lives in a medieval barn in Dorset.
'Colourful and wildly entertaining...A wonderful read'
*GUARDIAN*
'A delicious five-course banquet: a murder mystery is succeeded by
an abandoned infant weepie, a love story, a social history and,
finally, a richly flavoured, full-bodied, 18th-century
whodunnit...You'll be kept guessing right up until the last page in
this splendid novel'
*HARPERS & QUEEN*
'A compulsive page-turner which will appeal especially to anyone
who was spellbound by Charles Palliser's The Quincunx'
*DAILY MAIL*
'Take the rarefied world of Gosford Park, add the dark atmosphere
of Sherlock Holmes and a pinch of stylish prose and you have The
Thief Taker - an absorbing novel that evokes days of sin and
skulduggery'
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