It is the year 1826...Gentle, kindly, impoverished bachelor, Thomas Potts, is forced to fill the unwanted, unpopular post of 'Constable' of the Parish of Tardebrigge, Worcestershire. Timid by nature, physically weak, constantly hectored by his shrewish widowed mother, Tom is jeered at by the notorious, savagely violent 'Needle Pointers', and despised by the local ruling Gentry...But, when a homicidal maniac begins murdering and mutilating women, and terror spreads through the parish, it is Tom, 'The Reluctant Constable', who must identify, hunt down and confront this killer.
Sara Fraser is a pseudonym for Roy Clews, a one-time Marine Commando and Foreign Legionnaire who has travelled and worked all over the world.
Title: The Reluctant Constable (Severn House Large Print)
Author: Fraser, Sara
ISBN: 9780727877208
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Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2008-10-13
Number of Pages: 432
Weight: 0.5898 kg
With a superlative knack for creating authentically evocative characters and settings, the prolific Fraser offers a thoroughly entertaining and irresistibly engrossing historical drama. Booklist on The Reluctant Constable Good and suspenseful reading Publishers Weekly on The Valiant and The Damned