![]() ![]() The Poison Machine had a lot to live up to as I adored the first book, and it did’t disappoint. Last year around this time I read The Bloodless Boy, the debut novel by Robert J Lloyd, and throroughtly enjoyed it, so when Melville House contacted me to part of the blog tour for the next book The Poison Machine I jumped at the chance. He navigates its salons and libraries, and learns of a terrible plot against the current Queen of England, Catherine of Bragan§a, and her gathering of Catholics in London. Harry’s search takes him to Paris, another city bedeviled by conspiracies and intrigues. ![]() Now, this impostor has disappeared, taking vital information with him. Another man, working as a spy, has lived as him since his murder. He was sent home in disgrace after shooting a man in a duel. During the Civil Wars, Hudson accompanied the Queen to France to sell the Royal Jewels to fund her husband s army. Accompanied by his friend Colonel Fields, an old soldier for Parliament, and Hooke’s niece, Grace, Harry confirms Sir Jonas’s suspicion: the body is that of a dwarf, Captain Jeffrey Hudson, once famously given to Queen Henrietta Maria in a pie. ![]() There, workers draining the fenland have uncovered a skeleton. Harry Hunt – estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke and no longer employed by the Royal Society – meets Sir Jonas Moore, the King s Surveyor-General of the Board of Ordnance, in the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk. A year has passed since the sensational attempt to murder King Charles II. ![]() Publisher : Melville House Publishing (27 Oct. ![]()
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