The Body In The Thames, Susanna Gregory
The Body In The Thames, Susanna Gregory
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The Body In The Thames
6

Author: Susanna Gregory

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Unabridged: 14 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2021

Synopsis

London swelters in a heatwave in the summer of 1664, and in the corridors of power the temperature is equally high as an outbreak of war with the Dutch threatens to become a reality.

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The sixth adventure in the Thomas Chaloner series.

In the dilapidated surroundings of the Savoy hospital, a delegation from the Netherlands has gathered for a final attempt to secure peace between the two nations. Thomas Chaloner, active in Holland during Cromwell's time, knows many of the delegates, including the sister of his late wife.

Then the body of his former brother-in-law is found in the Thames. Chaloner discovers that the dead man has left enigmatic clues to a motivation for his murder. Was he involved in a plot to steal the crown jewels, or did he fall foul of one of the many people in London who are determined that the peace talks will fail?

'Pungent with historical detail' (Irish Times)

'A richly imagined world of colourful medieval society and irresistible monkish sleuthing' (Good Book Guide)

'Corpses a-plenty, exciting action sequences and a satisfying ending' (Mystery People)

About Susanna Gregory

Susanna Gregory was a police officer in Leeds before taking up an academic career. She has served as an environmental consultant, worked eighteen field seasons in the polar regions, and has taught comparative anatomy and biological anthropology.She is the creator of the Matthew Bartholomew series of mysteries set in medieval Cambridge and the Thomas Chaloner adventures in Restoration London. She now lives in Wales with her husband, who is also a writer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens

Read this book in 2012, and its the 6th volume of the splendid "Thomas Chaloner" series. This tale is set in June, of the year AD 1664, and a Dutch delegation has arrived in London to negotiate a peace between Holland and England. Thomas Chaloner, in his former days a spy to John Thurloe, during Cromw......more

Goodreads review by Niffer

I can't comment on the point that others have made about it seemingly being the same thing over and over again, but one thing I will say, is that when the reader has as much info as the spy, and has figured out who the baddie is half way through the book, and yet the spy doesn't for a loooong time a......more

Goodreads review by Geoff

I got onto Susanna Gregory via her Matthew Bartholomew series. I have them all to date (16), but the series was getting a mite predictable and the murder rate in Cambridge was getting as high as that in Morse's Oxford and Barnaby's Midsummer. So I tried her Thomas Chaloner when I saw one in the spec......more

Goodreads review by Victoria

This is the sixth book in the Thomas Chaloner series, and yet again I really enjoyed it. It starts off at the wedding of Thomas and Hannah, where an old acquaintance of Thomas’s is found dead at the back of the church, with a note pinned to his back saying “do not interfere”. Very cryptic. Thomas de......more

Goodreads review by Bookish

An excellent book, that kept the reader's interest in every single page, evenly paced, with different plots that evolved in the same pace and interacted in a very supporting to each other plot way with many different historical details and made me "live" in Restoration London hobnobbing with the hig......more

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