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Restoration London, 1664, brought vividly to life, with all the sights, sounds and smells of a teeming city, and loaded with intrigue and crawling with treachery Harry Lytle has just discovered he has a young cousin, Anne Giles. But he's had the pleasure of meeting her for the first time as a corpse. With some robust assistance from David Dowling, a witty, impressively well-built, but hygiene-deficient, butcher, Harry sets out to track down Anne's killer. Together they follow a trail of
show more blood, conspiracy and corruption that takes them to the dark and murky corners of London, feaTags
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a poor imitation of CJ sansom's series. it's highlight is the humour which can be wry and bleakly comic but the lowlight is the actual writing, it's clumsy, inconsistent and fails to capture the age, it's feel, it's smell and texture the way sansom does. worth a read only if bored
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Paul Lawrence has travelled and worked around the world but has now settled in Sydney, Australia where he runs creative writing workshops for high school students and other aspiring writers.
Paul Lawrence is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Sweet Smell of Decay
- Original publication date
- 2009-03-12
- People/Characters
- Harry Lytle
- Important places
- England, UK; London, England, UK
- First words
- As I gazed upon her face a small black beetle emerged from the ruins of her right eye. It stood uncertainly upon the crest of her cheekbone as if suddenly reluctant to step out further. Though I looked upon the beetle as if i... (show all)t was something unutterably revolting - still I felt like we two had something in common.
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- Members
- 114
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.05)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 1
