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Antonia Hodgson (born 1971) is a British historical crime writer and publisher. Life Hodgson was born in Derby in 1971. She attended Littleover Community School. She graduated with a degree in English Literature from Leeds University in 1994 and she went to work for Harcourt, Brace. Hodgson spent nearly twenty years in the publishing business rising to editor-in-chief at Little, Brown before she published her own first novel. Hodgson's first novel, A Devil in the Marshalsea, was set in the time of the early Georgians, William Hogarth and the Southwark prison the Marshalsea. Hodgson believes that the Georgian period was more intriguing than the Victorian era which is usually considered to be more culturally important. The book was submitted anonymously to the publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, because she was known in the publishing industry. Her first book won the Crime Writers Association's Historical Dagger award and was long listed for a first novel award. It also was shortlisted in 2015 for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Works The Devil in the Marshalsea The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins A Death at Fountains Abbey The Silver Collar References. Discover the Antonia Hodgson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Antonia Hodgson books.
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The Detective Branch
Andrew PepperPyke joins the newly formed Detective Branch of the Metropolitan police in a tale of corruption and murder set in the dangerous backstreets of 19thcentury London...Drury Lane, 1844...
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Georgian London
Lucy InglisIn Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. T...
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Bloody Winter
Andrew PepperThe troubled head of the Detective Branch returns, in an intriguing case of kidnap, rebellion and murder...The body of a vagrant is discovered in a ditch in County Tipperary. Knox,...
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The Cartel
Graham JohnsonA global workforce. Billions in sales. But, unlike Tesco or BP, few have heard of it. The Cartel is Britain’s biggest drugs organisation, a shadowy network stretching from the free...
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The Mystery of the Stolen Brides
Robin SquireIt is the summer of 1891 and a young, beautiful bride is snatched from her wedding, leaving her guests shocked and her new husband distraught. A search is hurriedly mounted, but as...
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The Winter List
S. G. MacLeanSummer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supported the Protectorate are being hunted down as traitors. 'S. G. MacLean can make an...
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Kill-Devil And Water
Andrew PepperPyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica.London: 1840. The economy is sliding into...
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The Ferris Conspiracy
Paul Ferris & Reg McKayOn Glasgow's meanest streets life started well for the young Paul Ferris. How did he become Glasgow's most feared gangster, deemed a risk to national security?Arthur Thompson, Godf...
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The Hate Factory
David LeslieConvicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. In The Hate Factory, he candidly documents his experiences in jail wit...
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The Trial of Jack the Ripper
E MacphersonA shocking and brutal murder had taken place in the city in February that year, and the words 'Jack Ripper is at the back of this door' were found written in chalk on a door at the...
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The Revenge Of Captain Paine
Andrew PepperTerrific second novel set in the criminal underworld of preVictorian England from the author of THE LAST DAYS OF NEWGATEIt is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution,...
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The Last Days of Newgate
Andrew Pepper'A story of high intrigue and low politics, brutal murder and cunning conspiracies . . . tangy and rambunctious stuff!' Observer 'Gripping and atmospheric' Daily Express'Enjoyably ...
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Burke and Hare
Brian Bailey'My Lord, You are aware that, at this moment, the public feeling is strongly excited against the perpetrators of the late foul and cold blooded murders that have taken place in the...
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A Gathering of Ghosts
Karen MaitlandPagans tackle the Knights of St John with terrible consequences in the new medieval thriller by Queen of the Dark Ages, Karen Maitland. Set on the wilds of Dartmoor, this is a ghos...
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Jack The Ripper and the East End
Various Artists & Alex WernerIn 1888, Whitechapel at the heart of the inner East End was the most (in)famous place in the country, widely imagined as a site of the blackest and deepest horror. Its streets an...
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Devil Incarnate
Wayne ThallonAthol Visser, or 'Ivan the Terrible', is a ruthless torture technician who has maimed and murdered his way around the globe. He killed his first victim at 16, his last at 60, and, ...
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Jack The Ripper
Paul Gainey & Stewart EvansStewart Evans is a policeman whose hobby is collecting true crime ephemera. When a second hand bookseller rang to ask him if he would be interested in a collection of letters from ...
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The Body in the Boat
A. J. MacKenzieA gripping tale of murder and mystery in eighteenth century England. Across the still, dark English Channel come the smugglers. But tonight they carry an unusual cargo: a coffin. S...
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The Bookseller of Inverness
S. G. MacLeanA GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iai...