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  • The Irish Fiasco
    Geoff Quaife
    Luke’s murder investigation and search for stolen silver is complicated by intriguing Royalists, Irish rebels, influential women, treacherous comrades, a loveable witch, maladjusted siblings, murderous charcoal burners, and devious priests. ...
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    12,91 €

  • The Angelic Assassin
    Geoff Quaife
    In 1652 politicians secretly plan to disband the army. Its commander Oliver Cromwell sends Luke to foil these plotters, and find the murderers of three excise officers who stumbled across illegal ammunition that could be used against the army and its supporters. Luke uncovers a combination of corrupt politicians, powerful criminals, a bevy of would-be beautiful assassins, forei...
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    11,79 €

  • Chesapeake Chaos
    Geoff Quaife
    In 1650 Luke is in Maryland acting for Cromwell, and the colony’s proprietor Lord Baltimore, to assess the political situation. He becomes involved with a dysfunctional planter family and confronts several murders. His mission is complicated by planter rivalry, Indian wars, a Jesuit mission, a Puritan settlement and the incursion of a foreign power. ...
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    12,86 €

  • The Black Thistle
    Geoff Quaife
    In 1651, a fatally wounded Scottish trooper is found by an English patrol. Before he takes his last breath, he reveals the details of a major plot being hatched against Scottish leaders and English generals within Clarke Castle the same castle where many kidnapped Scots are being held. ...
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    12,89 €

  • The Spanish Relation
    Geoff Quaife
    Luke, now the King’s special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shire’s gentry to represent the King across the county, in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remaine...
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    11,75 €

  • Brides for A King
    Geoff Quaife
    Luke is ordered by the King to investigate the intrigues and deaths surrounding the King’s forthcoming marriage-with particular emphasis on England’s foreign policy and national security.The increased attacks on past mistresses and potential wives might be central to these concerns or stem from the simple jealousy of women anxious to obtain the King’s favour or lying about thei...
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    15,03 €

  • Trouble in Tangiers
    Geoff Quaife
    In 1661 Charles II put an end to the diplomatic wrangle between European powers to provide him with a wife. He announced he would marry the sister of the disabled King of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza. As part of the marriage treaty Portugal ceded the strategic north African port of Tangiers to England in return for three thousand English troops to assist Portugal maintain it...
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    15,02 €

  • The Malevolent Isle
    Geoff Quaife
    Luke’s first mission for the incoming King is to investigate the administration of an aging autocratic peer who is also a purveyor of magic. This marquis is undermined by a rebellious son who openly supports the work of an outlawed Catholic priest-and indulges in shady land deals. Luke’s investigation confronts a defrocked Anglican vicar, several promiscuous women and a series ...
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    14,03 €

  • The Second Son
    Geoff Quaife
    Luke, now the King’s special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shire’s gentry to represent the King across the county, in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remaine...
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    15,14 €

  • The Garden of Deceit
    Geoff Quaife
    In early 1657, Cromwell, after surviving three assassination attempts, turned to his top investigator, Luke Tremayne, to hunt the would- be killer. Elements in the army feared that Cromwell would become king and his government fall increasingly into the hands of civilians. Royalist agents played on this fear and planned to take over a strategic military unit to then overthrow t...
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    13,95 €

  • The Dale of Despair
    Geoff Quaife
    Luke Tremayne, Cromwell’s most trusted agent adjusts to life changing events. Cromwell is dead, and the army which kept England united is disintegrating. Luke resigns from government service, marries a vivacious widow, takes up a vast estate in Yorkshire, and is appointed a local magistrate. He is immediately confronted with the disappearance of his steward and becomes obsessed...
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    12,86 €

  • A Queen Besieged
    Geoff Quaife
    Queen Luisa faced trouble within her family as the young king Afonso, for whom she ruled, was both mentally and physically weak and the subject of unscrupulous politicians determined to turn him against his mother. Of immediate concern was evidence that one or more members of the queen’s government that sat as a council of war was a traitor. Anxious to assist the Portuguese que...
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    13,95 €

  • Murder in the Maghreb
    Geoff Quaife
    The English government determined to stop Islamic attacks on its shipping sends Luke as ambassador to the Maghreb states to negotiate a treaty. His mission is complicated by a dysfunctional English community, the volatile nature of local politics and the need to find a missing golden madonna, free an abducted English heiress and identify a vicious war criminal. ...
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    12,82 €

  • Lady Mary’s Revenge
    Geoff Quaife
    In 1657 the government prepares for a foreign invasion expected on the Medway. Luke is sent to uncover the local Royalists who might support the incursion. He is appalled at the dysfunctional nature of the household of the government’s strongest supporter where he is confronted with several attempts on his life and a series of murders. He must find the murderers, identify the t...
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    13,92 €

  • The Dark Corners
    Geoff Quaife
    The book continues the adventures of Oliver Cromwells top agent, Luke Tremayne. As Cromwells government faces conspiracies and uprisings from royalists, republicans, Catholics, religious extremists, and senior army officers, Luke is sent into Wales to assess the level of antigovernment activity and to solve the murder of a local magistrate. Several more murders follow, and in s...
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    12,82 €

  • The Dale of Despair
    Geoff Quaife
    In this twelfth Luke Tremayne adventure of political intrigue, fast action, and multiple murder mysteries, Cromwells most ruthless agent has to adjust to life-changing events. His leader, Englands ruler, Oliver Cromwell, is dead, and the army that kept England united and secure is disintegrating. Luke resigns from government service, marries a vivacious widow, takes up a vast e...
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    24,44 €

  • A Queen Besieged
    Geoff Quaife
    Queen Luisa faced trouble within her family as the young king Afonso, for whom she ruled, was both mentally and physically weak and the subject of unscrupulous politicians determined to turn him against his mother.Of immediate concern was evidence that one or more members of the queens government that sat as a council of war was a traitor.Anxious to assist the Portuguese queen ...
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    24,37 €

  • A Luke Tremayne Adventure Murder in the Maghreb
    Geoff Quaife
    The English government seeks to curtail Islamic attacks on its shipping in the Mediterranean and sends Luke Tremayne as ambassador to the Turkish Empire’s western outpost of Benbali to negotiate a treaty and free English slaves. His mission is complicated by the corruption and dysfunctional nature of the local English community and the volatile nature of the Benbali government ...
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    16,66 €

  • The Gardenof Deceit
    Geoff Quaife
    In early 1657, Cromwell, after surviving three assassination attempts, turned to his top investigator, Luke Tremayne, to hunt the would- be killer.Elements in the army feared that Cromwell would become king and his government fall increasingly into the hands of civilians. Royalist agents played on this fear and planned to take over a strategic military unit to then overthrow th...
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    24,13 €

  • The Spanish Relation
    Geoff Quaife
    This is a gripping murder mystery set in 1655 against the background of the crumbling government of Oliver Cromwell - a regime beset by power hungry politicians, vengeful Royalists and dissident army officers plotting to kill their leader. Cromwell is obsessed by the murder of an obscure Somerset squire and sends Luke Tremayne to investigate. On arrival in the county Luke disc...
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    21,80 €

  • The Dark Corners
    Geoff Quaife
    The book continues the adventures of Oliver Cromwell’s top agent, Luke Tremayne. As Cromwell’s government faces conspiracies and uprisings from royalists, republicans, Catholics, religious extremists, and senior army officers, Luke is sent into Wales to assess the level of antigovernment activity and to solve the murder of a local magistrate. Several more murders follow, and in...
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    16,16 €

  • The Frown of Fortune
    Geoff Quaife
    In 1653, Cromwell sent Luke Tremayne and his deputy Harry Lloyd to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled king Charles II. After a serious mishap to Luke, Harry is forced to complete the mission alone.Luke is nevertheless gainfully employed by a wealthy French aristocrat, the Marquis des Anges, to investigate the murder of his first wife and the attempted murder of his sec...
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    16,96 €

  • A Luke Tremayne Adventure the Angelic Assassin
    Geoff Quaife
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    12,80 €

  • The Black Thistle
    Quaife Geoff Quaife
    In 1651, a fatally wounded Scottish trooper is found by an English patrol. Before he takes his last breath, he reveals the details of a major plot being hatched against Scottish leaders and English generals within Clarke Castle-the same castle where many kidnapped Scots are being held. Luke Tremayne and his sergeant, Andre...
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    15,78 €

  • Chesapeake Chaos
    Geoff Quaife
    In 1650 Luke assists a dysfunctional Maryland family beset by multiple murders in an environment complicated by planter rivalry, Indian wars, religious conflict and the incursion of a European power. ...
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    18,37 €