The Butcher of Smithfield

by Susanna Gregory

Book 3 in the Thomas Chaloner series.

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London's competing newsmen are fighting to control what the public believes. Handwritten newsletters challenge official printed newsbooks, and both sides mix genuine intelligence with rumour, propaganda and deliberate falsehood.

When the struggle produces murder, Thomas Chaloner investigates writers, printers and government agents who profit from privileged information. He discovers that the killings are part of a broader attempt to shape opinion in the restored capital, where control of a story can be as valuable—and as lethal—as control of a weapon.