SEEKER

A CWA prize winning novel (2015) set in Cromwell's London and the first in the Damian Seeker series. London 1654 and Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector, yet he has many enemies at home and abroad. London is a teeming warren of spies and merchants, priests and soldiers, exiles and assassins. One of the web's most fearsome spiders is Damian Seeker, agent of the Lord Protector. No one knows where he comes from, who his family is, or even his real name. All that is known of him for certain is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell and that nothing can be hidden from him for long. In the city, coffee houses are springing up, fashionable places where men may meet to plot and gossip. When a popular captain and hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army is murdered, and Elias Ellingworth, an outspoken critic of Cromwell's regime is found standing over the bleeding body clutching a knife, his guilt seems to be without question. Yet Seeker is not convinced and he knows better than any man where to search for the real killer to bring him to justice. We are drawn into the Interregnum while the country was still divided between Royalists and Parliamentarians. 421pp, paperback.