Questor: Surgeon to the Republic – Tallis Clark
ISBN: 9781788648837
£12.99
A gripping story of danger, intrigue, jealousy and love set in the uncertain world of Oliver Cromwell’s post-civil war Republic.
When army surgeon, John Lockyer attends the pregnant victim of a street stabbing, saving the child, but not the mother, Lady Derryn Barlow, ward of the Earl of Pembroke, his life unravels. Hours later, a hospital laundry maid is killed and, pressured to keep quiet by the Earl’s henchman, van Prin, Lockyer and his colleague, Madame O’Brien, search for Sally’s sister, Finny, at the Whitecross Street brothel. But Finny has fled.
What is the link between the dead women? Who has taken the child? What are the brothel’s secrets? And will the murderer be found?
Infiltrating the exiled Royalists in France, will Lockyer uncover the answers? Will he find favour with Cromwell? And will he meet Madame O’Brien again?
In this compelling debut Tallis Clark deploys medical expertise and meticulous historical research to deliver a pitch-perfect story of murder, forensic investigation, political high stakes and the search for truth.
Author biography
Tallis Clark is an emeritus professor at a London medical school. Fascination with the ideas and ideals of the seventeenth century and their impact upon the practice of medicine and surgery at a revolutionary time led to this book. Clark is also a published poet, has produced two volumes of poetry and lives in both London and France, near Avignon.