A Date with the Executioner

‘HIGHLY ENJOYABLE . . . ANOTHER WELL-EXECUTED NOVEL BY A RELIABLY MASTERFUL STORYTELLER’ LANCASHIRE EVENING POST 1817. Dawn breaks over London, and the scene is set for a duel between a lady’s ardent admirers. Thief-taker Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly, but he is not sanguine about his clumsy pupil’s chances. Despite the breaking up of the duel by Bow Street Runners, the passions behind the confrontation seem to spill out into the full light of day when Bowerman is later stabbed to death. Paul and his twin, Peter, are determined to see justice done and a race against the Runners begins, where the brothers must pick a path through threads of inheritance and treachery, with a beautiful woman at the heart of the web. 1817. Dawn breaks on a summer's day in Chalk Farm, London, and the scene is set for a duel between a lady's ardent admirers. Fearless thief-taker Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly, and although Paul is not sanguine about his clumsy pupil's chances, he stands as his second. At the last moment the duel is broken up by Bow Street Runners. They are overjoyed to include Paul, one of their enemies and rivals, in the arrest. However, despite the interruption, the passions behind the duel seem to spill out into the full light of day when Bowerman is stabbed to death in a stranger's garden. Paul and his twin, Peter, are determined to see justice done and a race against the Runners begins, where the brothers must pick a path through threads of inheritance and treachery, with a beautiful woman at the heart of the web. 1817. Dawn breaks on a summer's day in Chalk Farm, London, and the scene is set for a duel between a lady's ardent admirers. Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly, and although he is not sanguine of his chances, stands as his second. Although the duel is broken up, the passions behind the duel seem to spill out into the full light of day when one of the two duellists is found dead, shot between the eyes. Paul and his twin Peter are determined to see justice done and are soon enmeshed in threads of inheritance, treachery and fraud. 1817. Dawn breaks on a summer's day in Chalk Farm, London, and the scene is set for a duel between a lady's two ardent admirers. Paul Skillen has been teaching Mark Bowerman how to shoot properly and, although he is not sanguine of his chances, stands as his second. Although the duel is broken up, the passions behind the duel seem to spill out into the full light of day when Bowerman is stabbed to death in a stranger's garden. Paul and his twin Peter are determined to see justice done and are soon enmeshed in threads of inheritance, treachery and fraud.