A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands ...

*** Read Shona MacLean's brand new novel, The Cromarty Library Circle, out now! ***London, 1654. In the teeming warren of spies, exiles and assassins that is Cromwell's London, the Lord Protector's most feared agent is Damian Seeker. No one knows where Seeker comes from or even his real name. But one thing is certain - nothing remains hidden from him for long.When a popular captain and hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army is murder...

*** Read Shona MacLean's new novel, The Cromarty Library Circle, out now! ***London, 1655. A perfectly preserved body in the robes of a Dominican friar has been found bricked up in the City of London's crumbling Blackfriars monastery.Captain Damian Seeker of Oliver Cromwell's guard recognises the dead man. Why did he meet such a hideous end, and what is his connection to the children who have started disappearing from around the ci...

*** Read Shona MacLean's new novel, The Cromarty Library Circle, out now! ***Yorkshire, 1655. Captain Damian Seeker of Oliver Cromwell's guard has been ordered to the North. Charged with preparing the way for the rule of the major-generals, he is placed under the command of Colonel Robert Lilburne at York. But when Lilburne sends him to the small village of Faithly to enforce stringent new anti-Royalist laws, Seeker quickly encounters a pl...

Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supported the Protectorate are being hunted down as traitors.'S. G. MacLean can make any historical period sing with life' Antonia HodgsonBy the summer of 1660 the last remnants of the Republic have been swept away and the Stuarts have been restored under their king, Charles II. A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is ...

*** Read Shona MacLean's new novel, The Cromarty Library Circle, out now! ***Bruges, 1658.Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's Guard, is dead. Or so he would have people believe. Now he is just an English carpenter in Bruges - albeit one who takes a keen interest in exiled Royalists.He is tailing four men who plan to convey a vast fortune to Charles Stuart. They are unaware that one of them is a traitor and that Seek...

*** Read Shona MacLean's new novel, The Cromarty Library Circle, out now! ***London, 1656.**Oliver Cromwell is now a king in all but name. Three conspirators, an alliance of Royalists and disillusioned Parliamentarians, plan to assassinate him.Seeker, though, is preoccupied by the discovery of the body of a man ravaged by a bear - creatures not seen in the capital since bear baiting was banned. The hunt for the killer lead...

Experience the story from start to finish with this complete collection of the Captain Damian Seeker Series from prize-winning author S. G. MacLean.London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies, at home and abroad.The city 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 L...

A sleuth to rival Shardlake or Cadfael - a mystery that will chill your blood.'Transports your body and soul to another time and place' CRAIG RUSSELL'A delight on all levels . . . engaging and moving' MANDA SCOTT'A truly memorable and exciting read' HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEWBanff, Scotland in the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just dru...

Second historical thriller in the Alexander Seaton series sweeps the hero back to his roots in Ulster, and a family living under a curse and riven with long-held secrets.It is 1628, Charles 1 is on the throne, and the British Crown is finally taking control of Ulster.Returning to his rooms one night, Alexander Seaton is shocked to find a stranger standing there - a man who could be his double. His name is Sean O'Neill, and he carries a plea for help from Ma...

Experience the story from start to finish with this complete collection of the Alexander Seaton Series from prize-winning author S. G. MacLean.Scotland, 1620s.Alexander Seaton's life is in tatters. Once a minister, he has been cast out of the kirk in disgrace after his affair with the Laird's daughter was discovered.When a body is discovered in Seaton's house and his own friend is accused of murder, Seaton decides to investigate. An...

1635, Aberdeen. A girl lies dead in a frozen garden. A young man goes missing after a drunken brawl and a sinister cloaked figure watches from the shadows . . .The missing student, son of a Highland chief, is one of Alexander Seaton's pupils. When the young man's companion turns up bruised and bloodied, suspicion mounts that he has murdered his friend. But Alexander is convinced that there's another explanation.Drawn ever deeper into the my...