Skin and Bone

Cragg & Fidelis #4

Robin Blake

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English

Little Brown
10 January 2017

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Cragg & Fidelis

1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock.

When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's enquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants, dead set on modernising the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners - and Cragg's apparent championship of them - as obstacles to their plan.

The murder of a baby is just the evidence they need to get rid of the tanners once and for all.

But the inquest into the baby's death is disrupted when the inn in which it is being held mysteriously burns down. Then Cragg himself faces a charge of lewdness, jeopardising his whole future as a coroner.

But the fates have not finished playing with him just yet. The sudden and suspicious death of a very prominent person may just, with the help of Fidelis's sharp forensic skills, bring about Cragg's redemption...

By: Robin Blake
Imprint: Little Brown
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 248g
ISBN: 9781472115997
ISBN 10: 1472115996
Series: Cragg & Fidelis
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 10 January 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robin Blake is a novelist, art critic and acclaimed biographer of Anthony Van Dyck and George Stubbs. Born and brought up in Preston, he has lived for many years in London.

Reviews for Skin and Bone: Cragg & Fidelis #4

This is rollicking stuff. Cragg and Fidelis are an engaging duo, and their first investigation is like crossing Robert Louis Stevenson with The Archers - Financial Times Cragg's first-person narrative voice is nicely judged: historically informed and reticent in the right proportions. Robin Blake's crisply written mystery offers all the pleasures of a classic detective novel and introduces the reader to an appealing new historical sleuth - TLS Fascinating . . . Blake's knowledge of an eighteenth-century backwater just shaking off medieval superstitions is deep and engaging - Booklist, starred review