Author:Diana Gabaldon
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The first book in Diana Gabaldon's LORD JOHN GREY series, set in the same world as her OUTLANDER novels
It's 1758 and Europe is in turmoil - the Seven Years War is taking hold and London is ripe with deceit. The enigmatic Lord John Grey, a nobleman and high-ranking officer in His Majesty's Army, pursues a clandestine love affair and a deadly family secret.
Grey's father, the Duke of Pardloe, shot himself just days before he was to be accused of being a Jacobite traitor. Now, seventeen years on, the family name has been redeemed; but an impending marriage revives the scandal. Lord John knows that as Whitehall whispers, rumours all too often lead their victims to the wails of Newgate prison - and to the gallows.
From barracks and parade-grounds to the bloody battlefields of Prussia, Grey faces danger and forbidden passions in his search for the truth. But it is in the stony fells of the Lake District that he finds the man who may hold the key to his quest: the enigmatic Jacobite prisoner Jamie Fraser.
Eighteenth-century Europe is brought startlingly to life in this compelling adventure mystery.
Gabaldon provides a rich, abundantly researched, entirely readable portrait of life among the English upper classes in the 1750s. From London's literary salons and political intrigue to fearsome battle scenes in the Seven Years' War, her writing is always vivid and often lyrical
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—— Classic FMSplendidly crafted, deeply disturbing first novel...will deservedly be a bestseller
—— The TimesGrabs from the very beginning and holds on tight
—— Literary ReviewA chilling, mesmerising debut thriller. S. J. Bolton is one to watch
—— TESS GERRITSENUnsparing, exciting, genuinely alarming ... excellent handling of densely woven plot, rich in interactions, well characterised and as subt le as it is shrewd ... A formidable debut
—— Literary ReviewAn extraordinary debut ... Slaughter has created a ferociously taut and terrifying story which is, at the same time, compassionate and real. I defy anyone to read it in more than three sittings
—— Denise MinaWildly readable...Blindsighted hits the bull's eye.
—— New York PostAn unflinching suspense thriller . . . Blindsighted is a promising debut, and Karin Slaughter is a novelist to watch
—— George P. PelecanosHistory comes deliciously alive on the page
—— New York Daily NewsNext to the dross that pours from the publishing industry under the 'thriller' heading, a truly well-written, multi-dimensional book with pulse and form becomes a gem of the highest order. So it's always a treat when the master of her genre comes out with a new one
—— City AMA fiction whose effect on the reader is almost as addictive as the slimming sweets on which Eugene becomes so disturbingly dependent
—— Sunday TelegraphRuth Rendell's sense of place and disdain for her characters elevates a sordid case of arson into an artful exploration of sinister self-delusion
—— Books of the Year, Evening StandardShe has made the city her own, and writes with both knowledge and compassion about its streets and buildings, its transport and its shops - and above all about its inhabitants ... As ever Rendell writes with wry and witty authority ... It's intelligent stuff, and very readable
—— SpectatorRendell is marvellous at psychological tension, and the suspicion that these ways will be sinister is what hooks the reader. Setting out her cast with conviction, she unrolls their lives at a stately, ominous pace
—— The Sunday TimesPsychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell's work is outstanding
—— The TimesRendell has a Dickensian empathy, informed by a prodigious love of London life. Her account, bursting with colour and vitality, is a treat to read
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