The Skeleton Army
Fire and blood and bones and all.
The so-called Salvation Army has come prancing from London's slums into Oxford's poorest quarters, setting neighbour against neighbour preaching its red hot gospel.
But then an Army soldier is brutally killed, and a note suggests that the Salvation Army’s shadowy enemy, the Skeleton Army, is responsible.
With the police unwilling to investigate, Rhiannon ‘Non’Vaughan, the great hope of the new Oxford women’s college movement and aspiring journalist, steps in, aided by tutor Basil Rice.
But when a second death is followed by threats of fire and blood, their task of preventing further conflict, and protecting innocent lives, seems impossible...
- Features two misfit protagonists, each fighting their own social battle as an academic young woman and a closeted gay man living in Victorian England
- The second book in the The Oxford Mysteries series, which has received rave reviews from the Sunday Times and Financial Times as well as major crime authors including Vaseem Khan, S.G. MacLean and Philip Gwynne Jones
- Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor, C. J. Sansom and Antonia Hodgson
A former speech and language therapist and current freelance writer and editor, Alis Hawkins is a founding member of Welsh crime writers’ collective, Crime Cymru, and chair of Wales’s only crime fiction festival, Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival. She has twice been shortlisted for the CWA's Historical Dagger.
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