Geoff Quaife
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Luke's first mission for the incoming King is to investigate the administration of an aging, autocratic peer who is also a purveyor of magic. This complex peer is being undermined by a son who engages in dubious land deals and who supports the activities of an outlawed Catholic priest. Luke is forced to confront a defrocked Anglican priest, several promiscuous women, and a series of murders whose motives may lie in the turbulent presence or the distant...
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In 1642 politicians secretly plotted to disband the army. Its commander Oliver Cromwell sends Luke to foil these plots and to find the murderers of three excise officers who stumbled across illegal ammunitions being stockpiled to use against the army. Luke uncovers a combination of corrupt politicians, powerful criminals, a bevy of would-be beautiful assassins, foreign agents, and an unhinged religious leader whose various interests endanger Luke's...
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Luke, now the King's special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of specific gentlemen to represent the King throughout the county and especially in Parliament and on the magisterial bench. Luke confronts a fractured Royalist community-divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those whom remained in England and suffered under Cromwell's...
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Cromwell, one of Parliament's leading generals sends a cavalry officer, Luke Tremayne, to Ireland to investigate the murder of a fellow officer and to find missing silver that Spain had sent to assist the Royalist and Irish rebel cause. His mission is complicated by the actions of these opponents. A coterie of influential women, treacherous comrades, a loveable witch, maladjusted siblings , murderous charcoal burners and devious priests.