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The Winter List

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Multi-award-winning historical thriller writer S. G. MacLean returns to her 17th century heartland. Charles II has been restored to the throne. A list of men who supported Cromwell must be hunted down to face a terrible traitor's death. On that list is the name of Damian Seeker.

By the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II. A list of forty-nine regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Executions of the regicides begin to take place and the hunt intensifies for those who have gone into hiding or have fled.

Although not a regicide, staunch Republican Damian Seeker is on a list of traitors to the king. Royalist spy, Lady Anne Winter, is employed to find evidence of guilt or innocence among the names on this Winter List. Seeker has fled but his beloved daughter Manon remains in England, married to lawyer Lawrence Ingolby, and living in York. As the conduit to her father and to others on the Winter List and surrounded by spies and watchers, Manon lives in constant danger and fear of discovery.

'S. G. MacLean can make any historical period sing with life' - Antonia Hodgson

(P) 2023 Quercus Editions Limited

Critics Review

With a propulsive plot, this is a well-researched and fascinating portrait of a febrile, still divided nation, where long-held grudges fester in an atmosphere of broken trust
Guardian
Vividly imaginative, this builds the world of 1660 from the ground up, with all its romance and tragedy
Sun
Manon faces daily danger in a novel that shows MacLean's ability to invest gripping fiction with historical fact
Sunday Times
A wonderful storyteller
The Times
Author S. G. MacLean
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 9 hours and 18 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529414257
Format Audiobook
Publisher Quercus
Genre Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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