And By Fire

A Novel

Evie Hawtrey

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Crooked Lane Books
24 May 2022

Crime & Mystery

Tempered by fire and separated by centuries, two extraordinary female detectives track a pair of murderous geniuses who will burn the world for their art in this mystery perfect for fans of Sarah Penner and Dan Brown.

Tempered by fire and separated by centuries, two extraordinary female detectives track a pair of murderous geniuses who will burn the world for their art in this mystery perfect for fans of Sarah Penner and Dan Brown.

Nigella Parker, Detective Inspector with the City Police, has a deeply rooted fear of fire and a talent for solving deadly arson cases. When a charred figure is found curled beside Sir Christopher Wren's Monument to the Great Fire of London, Nigella is dragged into a case pitting her against a murderous artist creating sculptures using burnt flesh.

Nigella partners with Colm O'Leary of Scotland Yard to track the arsonist across greater London. The pair are more than colleagues-they were lovers until O'Leary made the mistake of uttering three little words. Their past isn't the only buried history as they race to connect the dots between an antique nail pulled from a dead man's hands and a long-forgotten architect dwarfed by the life's work of Sir Christopher Wren.

Wren, one of London's most famous architects, is everywhere the pair turn. Digging into his legacy leads the DCIs into the coldest of cold cases- a search for a bookseller gone missing during the Great Fire of London. More than 350 years earlier, while looking for their friend, a second pair of detectives-a lady-in-waiting to the Queen and a royal fireworks maker-discovered foul play in the supposedly accidental destruction of St. Paul's Cathedral...but did that same devilry lead to murder? And can these centuries-old crimes help catch a modern-day murderer?

As Nigella and O'Leary rush to decode clues, past and present, London's killer-artist sets his sights on a member of the investigative team as the subject of his next fiery masterpiece.

By: Evie Hawtrey
Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 162mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781643859934
ISBN 10: 1643859935
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 24 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evie Hawtrey is a Yank by birth but a sister-in-spirit to her fierce and feminist London detective, DI Nigella Barker. Evie splits her time between Washington DC, where she lives with her husband, and York, UK, where she enjoys living in history, lingering over teas, and knocking around in pubs.

Reviews for And By Fire: A Novel

Praise for And By Fire: Bones meets the Restoration Court in Evie Hawtrey's And By Fire, a taut dual-timeline mystery that races along at the pace of an inferno! When London detective Nigella Parker teams up with her Scotland Yard ex-lover to solve a tricky arson case, she never imagines it will lead her to a centuries-old mystery . . . and another pair of unlikely sleuths from the court of Charles II. As Nigella and her partner race through 21st century London to find a serial killer who sculpts in fire-burned flesh, and a 17th century fireworks-maker and royal lady-in-waiting struggle to find the truth behind the destruction of St. Paul's during the deadly Great Fire of London, all four lives will hang in the balance. Fresh, dynamic, and crisply researched, And By Fire will appeal to histfic fans and mystery readers alike-I couldn't put this one down! -Kate Quinn, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Alice Network

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