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Alexander Seaton Series

by S. G. MacLean 4 books in this series

The Alexander Seaton series follows a disgraced former minister who works first as a schoolmaster in Banff and later within the academic world of Aberdeen. Between 1626 and 1635, Seaton is drawn into murders involving poisoned bodies, family secrets, dangerous books, religious division and the recruitment of Scottish soldiers for continental war.

The four novels place their investigations inside the strict moral culture of early Stuart Scotland. Seaton’s efforts to recover his reputation and protect those close to him develop alongside the cases, while the series broadens from local kirk and burgh politics to the Plantation of Ulster and the Thirty Years’ War.

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Books in this series (4 books)

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1. The Redemption of Alexander Seaton

S. G. MacLean

First published 2008

4.2(3,676)

Banff, 1626. Alexander Seaton, a disgraced former minister now working as an assistant schoolmaster, encounters a young man collapsing in the street during a storm. By morning the victim has died from poison and his body has been placed inside Seaton’s schoolroom, making Alexander both a…

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2. A Game of Sorrows

S. G. MacLean

First published 2010

4.3(2,315)

Aberdeen, 1628. Alexander Seaton is approached by Sean O’Neill, a cousin who closely resembles him and carries a summons from their formidable grandmother in Ulster. A poet has pronounced a curse on the O’Neill family, and a sequence of threatening verses appears to be predicting the…

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3. Crucible of Secrets

S. G. MacLean

First published 2011

4.3(1,883)

Aberdeen, 1631. Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal College and a close friend of Alexander Seaton, receives a package of rare works on alchemy and hermetic philosophy. Before he can explain their importance, he is murdered and the books disappear. The college principal asks Alexander to investigate…

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4. The Devil’s Recruit

S. G. MacLean

First published 2013

4.3(2,237)

Aberdeen, 1635. A recruiting ship has arrived to enlist Scottish soldiers for the Thirty Years’ War, and one of Alexander Seaton’s students disappears after a drunken fight. When the young man’s companion is found injured and a woman’s frozen body is discovered in a private garden,…

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