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‘One of the most reliably enjoyable of historical novelists … Taylor demonstrates his usual command of plot and historical background’

Sunday Times

‘Finely wrought and solidly researched. The novel’s plot is fiendishly complex’

Sunday Telegraph

‘In this elegant, engrossing novel set during an extraordinary period, Taylor skilfully presents a London in which so many must still pay the price for the Civil War and the murder of King Charles I’

Sunday Express

‘An atmospheric and compelling tale for tumultuous times’

The Times, Summer Books

‘The author conveys the confusion and uncertainty of the times in a pacy story of Charles II’s desire for vengeance, the struggle to rebuild a stricken city and the hunt for a murderer’

Daily Mail

‘A complex weave of history and mystery and the first of a new series from Andrew Taylor’

The i

‘Thrilling … gripping, fast-moving and credible … it’s a well-constructed political thriller with moments of horror, admirable and enjoyable. Taylor has done his research so thoroughly as to be unobtrusive’

Spectator

‘The description of London in 1666, as the Great Fire is at last dying down, is unforgettable’

Literary Review

‘The Ashes of London is a chilling murder mystery and an equally transporting historical novel. A genuine pleasure from start to finish’

Peter Swanson, author of A Kind Worth Killing