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Robert Lloyd, the son of parents who worked in the British Foreign Office, grew up in South London, Innsbruck, and Kinshasa. He studied for a Fine Art degree, starting as a landscape painter, but it was while studying for his MA degree in The History of Ideas that he first read Robert Hooke's diary, detailing the life and experiments of this extraordinary man. After a 20-year career as a secondary school teacher, he has now returned to painting and writing. He is the author of The Bloodless Boy, which was selected by Publishers Weekly as a Mystery Book of the Year and The New York Times as a Best New Historical Novel of 2021.
Lloyd once again infuses his world with the sights, sounds, and smells of the late 17th century...for what's bound to be one of the best historical novels of the year. - CrimeReads Outstanding ... Lloyd skillfully combines an endearingly flawed lead, jaw-dropping twists, and the fraught, conspiracy-laden politics of the Stuart Restoration. - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Praise for the previous book in the Hook & Hunt series, The Bloodless Boy . . . A New York Times Best New Historical Novel of 2021 CrimeReads Best Debut Novels of The Month: November 2021 Potent... fast-paced... - The New York Times Book Review Everything new is old again - rumor-mongering, disinformation campaigns, religious bigotry - in Robert J. Lloyd's nifty murder mystery loosely based on real events in Restoration England. -The Washington Post Lloyd's stunning debut and series launch makes the complex politics of the time feel immediate while integrating them into an engrossing whodunit. - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
