The Pudding Lane Plot

As the people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague in Westminster plans are afoot for a grandiose ball in honour of a long-dead but English-born Pope. Meanwhile the markets and coffee houses in the city are awash with rumours of war and portents of a coming disaster. Mysterious killings at both ends of the capital have been caused by an unusually long slender blade and Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate. This leads him into a tapestry of conspiracy outlandish claims of the Second Coming the reappearance of a number of regicides and ever more brazen killings. As the date of the great ball looms closer Chaloner fears that there is a dangerously credible conspiracy against the throne and he has very little time to prevent history from repeating itself . . .