Bloodie Bones by Lucienne Boyce
Parsons and tyrants friends take note. We have born your oppreshuns long enough. We will have our parish rights or else Bloodie Bones will drink your blood. When Lord Oldfield encloses Barcombe Wood, depriving the people of their ancient rights to gather food and fuel, the villagers retaliate with vandalism, arson and riot. Then Lord Oldfield's gamekeeper, Josh Castle, is murdered during a poaching raid. Dan Foster, Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist, is sent to investigate. Dan's job is to infiltrate the poaching gang and bring the killers to justice. But there's more to Castle's death than at first sight appears. What is the secret of the gamekeeper's past and does it have any connection with his murder? What is Lord Oldfield concealing? And did someone beside the poachers have a reason to want Josh Castle dead? As tensions in Barcombe build to a thrilling climax, Dan will need all his wits and his fighting skills to stay alive and get to the truth.
Boyce, Lucienne: - Lucienne Boyce is a historical novelist and women's suffrage historian. Her first historical novel, 'To The Fair Land' (SilverWood Books), an eighteenth-century thriller set in Bristol and the South Seas, was published in 2012. Her second novel, 'Bloodie Bones: A Dan Foster Mystery' (SilverWood Books, 2015), is the first of the Dan Foster Mysteries and follows the fortunes of a Bow Street Runner who is also an amateur pugilist. 'Bloodie Bones' was winner of the Historical Novel Society Indie Award 2016 and was also a semi finalist for the M M Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016. 'The Fatal Coin', a novella which is a prequel to 'Bloodie Bones', was published as an ebook by SBooks in 2017. In 2013 Lucienne published 'The Bristol Suffragettes' (SilverWood Books), a history of the suffragette movement in Bristol and the West Country. She regularly gives talks and leads walks about women's suffrage movement. In 2014 she contributed a chapter about women's war work and the vote to 'Bristol and the First World War', the book published by the Bristol Festival of Ideas for its Great Reading Adventure 2014. She has written a chapter on Welsh suffragist Winifred Coombe Tennant for inclusion in a forthcoming book on Welsh women's history to be published by the University of Wales Press. She is currently working on the third of the full-length Dan Foster Mysteries, and a biography of suffragette Millicent Browne. Lucienne is on the steering committee of the West of England and South Wales Women's History Network. She was born in Wolverhampton and now lives in Bristol, which is the setting and inspiration for much of her work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781999723620 |
| ISBN 10 | 1999723627 |
| Title | Bloodie Bones |
| Author | Lucienne Boyce |
| Series | The Dan Foster Mysteries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wulfrun Press |
| Year published | 2022-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 284 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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