Today I am sharing an extract for The Fatal Coin by Lucienne Boyce but first of all let's take a look at the description for the book...
BY LUCIENNE BOYCE
Genre:
Historical
fiction
Series: A Dan Foster Mystery
Release Date:
16
May 2017
Publisher: S Books
In the winter of 1794 Bow Street Runner
and amateur pugilist Dan Foster is assigned to guard a Royal Mail coach. The mission
ends in tragedy when a young constable is shot dead by a highwayman calling
himself Colonel Pepper. Dan is determined to bring Pepper to justice, but the
trail runs cold.
Four months later Dan is sent to
Staffordshire to recover a recently excavated hoard of Roman gold which has
gone missing. Here he unexpectedly encounters Colonel Pepper again. The hunt is
back on, and this time Dan will risk his life to bring down Pepper and his
gang.
The Fatal Coin
is a prequel to Bloodie Bones, the
first Dan Foster Mystery, which was joint winner of the Historical Novel
Society Indie Award 2016.
BUY LINKS
EXTRACT
“Dan dragged himself to the injured man,
leaned over him, tried to see how much blood there was. A lot.
‘Wilkinson,
stay awake. Stay with me.’
Dan
struggled to loosen the rope at his wrists until the skin was raw and bleeding.
He and the naval lieutenant shuffled back-to-back and tried to unpick each
other’s knots. Then they tried sawing the ropes on the rim of one of the mail
coach’s wheels. At the end of an hour they had made little progress.
Release
came when a carrier wagon full of seamen on their way back to their ships
plodded along the road. But by then, Wilkinson was dead.”
ABOUT LUCIENNE
BOYCE
Lucienne
Boyce is a historical novelist and women’s suffrage historian. Her first
historical novel, To The Fair Land (SilverWood Books) an
eighteenth-century thriller set in Bristol and the South Seas, was published in
2012. Her second novel, Bloodie Bones: A Dan Foster Mystery (SilverWood
Books, 2015) is the first of the Dan Foster Mysteries and follows the fortunes
of a Bow Street Runner who is also an amateur pugilist. Bloodie Bones was
winner of the Historical Novel Society Indie Award 2016, and was also a semi-finalist
for the M M Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016.
In 2013,
Lucienne published The Bristol Suffragettes (SilverWood
Books), a history of the suffragette movement in Bristol and the west country.
She regularly gives talks and leads walks about women’s suffrage.
Lucienne
is on the steering committee of the West of England and South Wales Women’s
History Network, and is also a member of the Society of Authors and the
Alliance of Independent Authors. She is a regular presenter on the Silver Sound
show for BCfm Radio, a Bristol community radio station.
Lucienne
is working on the third Dan Foster Mystery, and a biography of a married couple
who were involved in the suffragette, socialist and pacifist movements. She was
born in Wolverhampton and now lives in Bristol.
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