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The Seeker

By: S.G. MacLean
Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
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About this listen

 Winner of the 2015 CWA Endeavour Dagger for Historical Fiction

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.

London is a complex web 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 Seeker 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 long hidden from him.

In the city, coffee houses are springing up, fashionable places where men may meet to plot and gossip. Suddenly they are ringing with news of a murder. John Winter, hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army, is dead, and the lawyer, Elias Ellingworth, found standing over the bleeding body, clutching a knife.

Yet despite the damning evidence, Seeker is not convinced of Ellingworth's guilt. He will stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice: and Seeker knows better than any man where to search.

(P)2016 WF Howes Ltd©2015 Shona MacLean 17th Century Historical Modern Mystery Thriller & Suspense Fiction England

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Critic reviews

The contradictions and compromises of Cromwell's Proctectorate are rather brilliantly woven into the thrilling plot . . . If her next outing is as riveting as this one, she could challenge CJ Sansoms' Shardlake for dominion of the crowded historical crime niche.
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This is an excellent story, but the narrator is very soporific. Rather than not listening though, I listened at 1.25 speed (on my iphone) and found it perfectly OK. I'm glad I persevered as it really was an excellent story

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I loved the Alexander Seton series, but the monotonous mumble of this reading made the story very hard to follow. The reader can only do one accent, his own, and what should have been an exciting tale constantly lost my attention.

Probably a good book, but hard to tell

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This was hard going. overall the story was not bad, but the whispering , monotone narrator made it a tough listen.

Good story, narrator poor

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Great story but I had to relisten to first chapters again due to the monotone delivery. By the end of the book I had got used to it but I almost gave up. Glad I didn’t. Shame really but I can see that I was not the only one who found this.

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There have been some negative comments about the narrator which I disagree with - his voice suits the protagonist’s character perfectly and I’d very happily listen to him again in future.

The plot is engaging and there’s lots of interesting historical detail, I’ll definitely be checking out more of this series.

Great narrator and very atmospheric.

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