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The Pepys Memorandum: A Saint and Czinner Mystery

by Colin Eston

336 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-2644; ISBN 1-4251-5856-0; US$25.16, C$25.16, EUR17.19, £12.99

A lost manuscript, an intriguing quest and a conspiracy to destroy government and monarchy. Elegant literary pastiche, shady characters and close shaves culminate in terror at Durham Cathedral.

About the Book

DS Emma Saint and Ben Czinner are looking forward to a relaxing holiday on the Northumberland coast. But they find violent strangers in their host's house, and the host himself missing.

Over the following days they embark on a desperate quest. The trail leads the to the historic ramparts of Berwick upon Tweed and Bamburgh, the isolation of Holy Island and the bustle of Alnwick, with its bookshop and Garden Treehouse. Searching for a lost manuscript that has the potential to topple both government and monarchy. A search beset with urgency and danger, for others engaged in the pursuit are ruthless and will stop at nothing.

The object of their quest, Samuel Pepys's lost northern diary, may hold the key to an audacious historical deception involving the legend of the King in the North and the historic Percy family. A cover-up that has lain undetected in Shakespeare's plays and which is now being used by unscrupulous figures to plan an unthinkable terrorist outrage.

An enjoyable mix of secret codes, suspicious characters and clever literary pastiche, The Pepys Memorandum is a light-hearted but thought provoking race around north-east England, culminating in a nail-biting climax atop the grandeur of Durham Cathedral.

About the Author

Colin Eston was born and brought up in Yorkshire. After a career in eduction, he now writes full time. The Pepys Memorandum us the third in a series of mysteries featuring DS Emma Saint and her friend Ben Czinner.