Spectred Isle

Spectred Isle (2017) KJ Charles (Green Men #1)

Set in London in 1923

(T)he Empire that had covered a full quarter of the earth was beginning to look less like an immutable and unchanging truth and more like hubris.

As a normal sort of Englishman, Saul’s reaction to religious enthusiasm was usually to remove himself from the conversation as quickly as possible. He couldn’t. Major Peabody was going to be overjoyed by this. He smiled at the old man. “Tell me more.”

The litany of possible dooms ran through Saul’s head, adapting itself to the tune of ‘What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor’. Hanging off a tree in a leaden coffin; drowned in a well with a tree grown over it; arrow to the eye and lost in fenland; ear-lie in the morning.

Characters: Randolph Glyde, Saul Lazenby, Major Peabody, Sam Caldwell, Max Isaacs, Huge Barney Barnaby, Syrena Phan, Jo Caldwell, Theresa Glyde, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Mr. Delingpole, Mr. Abchurch, Henrietta Abchurch, Vicar Herbert, Mrs. Allan

Cover by Lexiconic Design

Rating: 8/10

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