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The Chelsea Strangler

by Susanna Gregory Book 11 in the Thomas Chaloner series.

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During the plague summer of 1665, the court and most wealthy Londoners flee the capital. Thomas Chaloner is sent to Chelsea to investigate thefts from a private asylum supported by the Earl of Clarendon, but a series of stranglings soon becomes the more urgent danger.

The village is crowded with displaced courtiers, asylum inmates and Dutch prisoners of war housed in a theological college. Conflicting testimony links the institutions in unexpected ways, and Chaloner must find a killer able to hide among strangers before panic over escape, disease and murder overwhelms Chelsea.

Historical Periods

Great Plague of London1665–1666 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction Crime & Mystery Espionage Historical Thriller

Historical people

Charles II of England1630–1685

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