Blood and Sugar - February Book of the MonthExclusive edition with sprayed edges and a custom ribbon marker and head and tail bands. Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime novel from Laura Shepherd Robinson. June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock horribly tortured and branded with a slavers mark. Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham a war hero embarking upon a promising parliamentary career is visited by the sister of an old friend. Her brother,

Early one morning Jack jumps off a bus in the middle of nowhere and walks 14 miles down an empty country road

He's an outcast

Any channel

The case is stalled

many at the scene

The time of the novel is more or less that of the last year of Richard Nixon's presidency

is on the brink of fulfilling his dead King's dream: Aline is about to take the throne and restore the rule of law once and for all

the poet will discover that true power lies not at the point of a sword

Through the layer of dead leaves

tabloid reporter Pete Wonicke at first can't help but do the same

People they don't

She and her mother have fled from city to city