A Masterpiece of Corruption: The Second John Grey Historical Mystery: 2 - Softcover

The year is 1657, and a case of mistaken identity results in Grey, who has republican sympathies, finding himself in the middle of a plot by the Sealed Knot, a secret royalist association, to assassinate Oliver Cromwell in order that Charles Stuart may return from exile to take his place on the throne. Forced into the role of double agent, caught up in a dizzying whirl of plot and counterplot and anxious to save his own skin, Grey, the son of a royalist, begins to question exactly where his own loyalties lie. Grey is a likable, dryly humorous protagonist, and Tyler, who uses a mixture of real and invented characters, has created a credible, and credibly bamboozling, atmosphere of paranoia as the two factions are increasingly riven by internal strife, with lofty ideals giving way to expediency.--Laura Wilson "The Guardian, February 2016 "

"John Grey, a newly minted lawyer in Cromwell's England, is in trouble because of a mis-delivered letter that has left him with more information about a murderous plot than it's entirely safe to know. Can Grey prevent the murder? And can he keep his mouth shut long enough to save his own skin"--