‘A mystery that mixes a series of murders among Maulberg’s elite, masonic conspiracies and a mad alchemist into a satisfying brew’ The Sunday Times
DEATH AT THE CARNIVAL
Shrove Tuesday, 1783. While the nobility dance at a masked ball, the beautiful Lady Martesen is murdered. Daniel Clode is found by her body, his wrists slit and his memories blurred and nightmarish. What has he done?
A DESPERATE MISSION
Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther race to the Duchy of Maulberg to save Daniel from the executioner’s axe. There they find a capricious Duke on the point of marriage, a court consumed by luxury and intrigue, and a bitter enemy from the past.
RIDDLE, RITUAL AND MURDER
After another cruel death, Harriet and Crowther must discover the truth, no matter how horrific it is. Does the answer lie with the alchemist seeking the elixir of life? With the automata makers in the Duke’s fake rural idyll? Or in the poisonous lies oozing around the court as the elite strive for power?
‘Robertson shows herself to be one of the best writers of historical fiction currently at work’ BBC History Magazine