London 1664. Harry Lytle has just discovered he has a young cousin, Anne Giles. But he's had the pleasure of meeting her for the first time as a corpse. Harry sets out to track down Anne's killer, but he must follow a trail of blood, conspiracy and corruption that takes him to the dark and murky corners of Restoration London.

Born in a convent hospital in Malpas in 1963, Paul Lawrence lived in Spain, Japan and the UK before finally settling in Australia with his wife and children.