An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical fiction mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page. We are in England in the 1660s. Charles ii has been r...An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical fiction mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page. We are in England in the 1660s. Charles ii has been restored to the throne following years of civil war And Cromwell's short-lived republic.