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Pete Langman

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Killing Beauties: there ain’t nothin’ like a she-spy

Posted by Aruna at January 24, 2020 in reviews &the literary lounge

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    A well-conceived historical novel is a fine thing indeed. Throw in some she-spies, shed loads of intrigue and the gritty, dark and turbulent world of mid-seventeenth-century Civil War England and surely you’re onto a winner? Well, Pete Langman’s enjoyable Killing Beauties has all those things, and more. Langman’s well-researched novel focuses on Susan … Continue readings →

Tags : Charles Stuart, Civil War, Edward Hyde, Killing Beauties, Parlimentarian, Pete Langman, Restoration, Royalist, seventeenth-century England, she-intelligencers, she-spies, Susan Hyde, women's history

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