Plague Paperback by C.C. Humphreys

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2016-07-12)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385679947
• Item Weight: 444.53 grams
• Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 1.0 cm

WINNER 2015—Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel

London, 1665. A serial killer stalks his prey, scalpel in his hand and God's vengeance in his heart. 
     Five years after his restoration to the throne, Charles II leads his citizens by example, enjoying every excess. Londoners have slipped the shackles of puritanism and now flock to the cockpits, brothels and, especially, the theatres, where for the first time women are allowed to perform alongside the men. 
     But not everyone is swept up in the excitement. Some see this liberated age as the new Babylon, and murder victims pile up in the streets, making no distinction in class between a royalist member of parliament and a Cheapside whore. But they have a few things in common: the victims are found with gemstones in their mouths. And they have not just been murdered; they've been . . . sacrificed.
    Now the plague is returning to the city with full force, attacking indiscriminately . . . and murder has found a new friend.

About the Author

CHRIS (C.C.) HUMPHREYS is a bestselling author, an actor and a swordsman. He was born in Toronto and grew up in the UK, and has acted on stages all over the world in roles ranging from Hamlet to Jack Absolute to Clive Parnell on Coronation Street. His books have been published in more than ten languages and have won numerous awards, including, most recently, the 2015 Arthur Ellis Prize for Best Novel (Plague), the 2007 Evergreen Prize by the Ontario Library Association (The Jack Absolute series) and the runner-up prize for the 2002 CWA Steel Dagger for Thrillers (The French Executioner). He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. You can visit him at www.authorchrishumphreys.com.