[PDF] The Bloodless Boy by Robert J. Lloyd

The Bloodless Boy by Robert J. Lloyd

• The Bloodless Boy
• Robert J. Lloyd
• Page: 448
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781612199511
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing

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Notes From Your Bookseller Although set nearly 200 years apart, Robert J. Lloyd’s debut novel, The Bloodless Boy, would sit nicely on your bookshelf next to Caleb Carr’s The Alienist. Keep in mind, during the English Restoration, forensic medicine hadn’t yet been pioneered. Which is to say, when the clues are deeply hidden, it takes a clever writer to present them. The Bloodless Boy is deep in atmosphere, mystery and sense of place. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be impressed. A New York Times Best New Historical Novel of 2021 "Potent... fast-paced..." - The New York Times Book Review "Wonderfully imagined and wonderfully written . . . Superb!" — Lee Child Part Wolf Hall, part The Name of the Rose, a riveting new literary thriller set in Restoration London, with a cast of real historic figures, set against the actual historic events and intrigues of the returned king and his court … The City of London, 1678. New Year’s Day. Twelve years have passed since the Great Fire ripped through the City. Eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of a King. London is gripped by hysteria, and rumors of Catholic plots and sinister foreign assassins abound.   When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding—and whether it's part of a plot against the king. They soon learn it is not the first bloodless boy to have been discovered.   Meanwhile, that same morning Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, blows his brains out, and a disgraced Earl is released from the Tower of London, bent on revenge against the King, Charles II.   Wary of the political hornet’s nest they are walking into – and using scientific evidence rather than paranoia in their pursuit of truth – Hooke and Hunt must discover why the boy was murdered, and why his blood was taken. The Bloodless Boy is an absorbing literary thriller that introduces two new indelible heroes to historical crime fiction. It is also a powerfully atmospheric recreation of the darkest corners of Restoration London, where the Court and the underworld seem to merge, even as the light of scientific inquiry is starting to emerge …

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