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A Season for Justice
First published 2021
England, 1618. Robert Belstrang is summoned by his friend Sir Richard Mountford, whose brother has died in an explosion at the family iron foundry in the Forest of Dean. The works cast cannon for the Royal Armouries, and Mountford is convinced that the fatal blast was not an industrial accident.
Belstrang's questions uncover commercial rivalries and secrets whose implications reach beyond the foundry and beyond England. The investigation forces him to confront the relationship between private profit, royal armaments and international tension while his own estate is financially vulnerable. The final Justice Belstrang mystery moves the series from courts and country houses into the early modern iron industry. It was first published as Deliverance.
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