
Andrew Taylor
10 SeriesAndrew Taylor is a British author renowned for his James Marwood & Cat Lovett series. He received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for his lifelong excellence in crime and historical fiction. His book, The Anatomy of Ghosts, was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
In 1792, during the French Revolution, Edward Savill learns of his wife's murder in Paris. He travels to Charnwood Court in England to retrieve his ten-year-old son, Charles, who has witnessed unspeakable horrors and is now mute. At Charnwood, a refuge for émigrés, Savill discovers that Charles harbors a dark secret. Determined to uncover the truth, Savill embarks on a quest to free his son from the burden of his silence.