The Dead Don't Wait

Author:   Michael Jecks
Publisher:   Canongate Books
Edition:   Main
ISBN:  

9781780291208


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 July 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Jack Blackjack stands accused of killing a priest in the wickedly entertaining new Bloody Mary Tudor mystery. April, 1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by the roadside - and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder. As well as clearing his name, Jack has his own reasons for wanting to find out who really killed the priest - but this is an investigation where nothing is as it seems. Was it a random attack by a desperate outlaw, or do the answers lie in the murdered priest's past? As he questions those who knew the dead man, Jack is faced with a number of conflicting accounts - and it's clear that not everyone can be telling him the whole truth. But Jack is about to be sidetracked from the investigation . with disastrous consequences.

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Author:   Michael Jecks
Publisher:   Canongate Books
Imprint:   Severn House
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.465kg
ISBN:  

9781780291208


ISBN 10:   1780291205
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 July 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Enjoyable . Fans of Elizabethan historicals will have fun * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> * Readers who enjoy the period details as much as the plot will be entertained * <b>Booklist</b> * The improbably and delightfully humorous protagonist moves the story to a surprising conclusion * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> * Entertaining . Jecks brings the seamy side of Tudor London to life through rich, atmospheric descriptions of its taverns, brothels and streets * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>A Missed Murder</b> * An unlikely and amusing sleuth who manages to solve a tricky mystery against all odds * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> on <b>A Murder Too Soon</b> * Engrossing . Plot twists abound, but the novel's greatest strength is its jaunty tone, plunging the reader into raucous Elizabethan England * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>A Murder Too Soon</b> * Jecks keeps the suspense at a steady boil as his well-rounded characters fight for a corner in tumultuous London with humor and even humanity * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>Rebellion’s Message</b> *


The improbably and delightfully humorous protagonist moves the story to a surprising conclusion * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> * Entertaining . Jecks brings the seamy side of Tudor London to life through rich, atmospheric descriptions of its taverns, brothels and streets * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>A Missed Murder</b> * An unlikely and amusing sleuth who manages to solve a tricky mystery against all odds * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> on <b>A Murder Too Soon</b> * Engrossing . Plot twists abound, but the novel's greatest strength is its jaunty tone, plunging the reader into raucous Elizabethan England * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>A Murder Too Soon</b> * Jecks keeps the suspense at a steady boil as his well-rounded characters fight for a corner in tumultuous London with humor and even humanity * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>Rebellion's Message</b> *


Entertaining . Jecks brings the seamy side of Tudor London to life through rich, atmospheric descriptions of its taverns, brothels and streets * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>A Missed Murder</b> * An unlikely and amusing sleuth who manages to solve a tricky mystery against all odds * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> on <b>A Murder Too Soon</b> * Engrossing . Plot twists abound, but the novel's greatest strength is its jaunty tone, plunging the reader into raucous Elizabethan England * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>A Murder Too Soon</b> * Jecks keeps the suspense at a steady boil as his well-rounded characters fight for a corner in tumultuous London with humor and even humanity * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>Rebellion's Message</b> *


Author Information

Michael Jecks is the author of more than thirty novels in the Knights Templar medieval mystery series. A former Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association, he lives with his wife, children and dogs in northern Dartmoor.

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