A Death at Fountains Abbey

Name: A Death at Fountains Abbey
Rating: 4.26 (2874 reviews)

by Antonia Hodgson Book 3 in the Thomas Hawkins series.

First published 2016

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Yorkshire, late spring 1728. Fresh from his escape from the gallows, Thomas Hawkins travels with Sam Fleet to Studley Royal, the estate of John Aislabie. The disgraced former Chancellor of the Exchequer has received anonymous threats, and Queen Caroline expects Hawkins to protect him while secretly recovering evidence connected with the South Sea Bubble.

The apparent tranquillity of Aislabie’s household conceals old grief, disputed loyalties and a carefully prepared campaign of revenge. The novel sets its murder mystery among the developing water gardens at Studley Royal, years before the Aislabie family acquired the neighbouring ruins of Fountains Abbey. Political disgrace, household hierarchy and landscape improvement all become part of the investigation.