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The Ashes of London

By: Andrew Taylor
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
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 The first book in the No. 1 Times bestselling series

‘This is terrific stuff’ Daily Telegraph

‘A breathtakingly ambitious picture of an era’ Financial Times

‘A masterclass in how to weave a well-researched history into a complex plot’ The Times

Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!

A CITY IN FLAMES
London, 1666. As the Great Fire consumes everything in its path, the body of a man is found in the ruins of St Paul’s Cathedral – stabbed in the neck, thumbs tied behind his back.

A WOMAN ON THE RUN
The son of a traitor, James Marwood is forced to hunt the killer through the city’s devastated streets. There he encounters a determined young woman, who will stop at nothing to secure her freedom.

A KILLER SEEKING REVENGE
When a second murder victim is discovered in the Fleet Ditch, Marwood is drawn into the political and religious intrigue of Westminster – and across the path of a killer with nothing to lose…

©2016 Andrew Taylor (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Crime Thrillers Detective Historical Mystery Thriller & Suspense Fiction Middle Ages Romance Crime England Government
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The story is well written, the reader is excellent. I would recommend this book to people who find this historic period of interest.

entertaining

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If a writer can't make the Great Fire of London exciting, surely there were better career choices he could have made. 57 chapters of some of the most plodding, clichè ridden prose I have ever endured. Main characters with less charm and depth than a puddle of week-old porridge.

The narrator does nothing to save this stupefyingly boring, overly long tome.

Dull narration of a dead boring story.

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This was probably one of the worst Audible books I have listened to. I sent it back, and thankfully received a Credit from Amazon.

Absolute Rubbish; a complete waste of time and money. Don't bother to buy

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