Antonia Hodgson The Thomas Hawkins Trilogy Signed 1st Edition UK HBs (1/1)

This is a lovely signed set of the first three'Thomas Hawkins' novels in this highly acclaimed medieval crime series by Antonia Hodgson. (1) The Devil in the Marshalsea (2014). (2) The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins (2015). (3) A Death at Fountains Abbey (2016). The three books are New and UNREAD.

They are First Edition, First Printing UK Hardbacks. Each book is SIGNED by Antonia on the title page. The books and their dust jackets are in FINE condition.

The Books are tight and square. The text blocks are toning evenly with age but remains bright and clean. There are no spine leans. All corners are sharp and intact.

There is no significant pushing or bruising to the spines. Both books and jackets are bright and clean.

There is no sunning or fading. The jackets are protected by an inert, removable cellophane wrapper. The books will be very well protected in bubble wrap and posted out with great care.

Please look carefully at the photos in this listing and ask me any questions that you may have. The Devil in the Marshalsea. I had spent three years at Oxford studying to join the clergy. Three years of rising at dawn to pray, daily seminars in classics, divinity and logic, before rushing back to church for evening prayers and finally to bed. Unfortunately, it was in that gap between evening prayers and bed where I was tested; and failed magnificently.

If only God had put fewer hours in the day. Tom Hawkins is damned if he's going to follow in his father's footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women and cards.

But there's a sense of honour there too, and Tom won't pull family strings to get himself out of debt - not even when faced with the appalling horrors of London's notorious debtors' prison: The Marshalsea Gaol. Offered the opportunity to free himself by solving a murder, Tom finds his principles tested to the limit. He is forced to navigate a new world of hitherto unimaginable corruption and violence..

WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014. Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014. This is a truly spellbinding tale. Guardian Hodgson's utterly compelling debut is fiendishly plotted and dripping with atmosphere.

I cannot wait for Tom Hawkin's next adventure. - Mark Billingham It is the mesh of lies and duplicity that draws you into this brilliant first novel...

A blood-drenched investigation that twists and turns in the vortex of Georgian society? The Times Historical fiction just doesn't get any better than this.

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