The House of Lamentations [Paperback]

'One of the best historical crime series out there'Crime Review

'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion'Sunday Times

Summer, 1658, and the Republic may finally be safe:the combined Stuart and Spanish forces have been heavily defeated by the English and French armies on the coast of Flanders, and the King's cause appears finished.


Yet one final, desperate throw of the dice is planned. And who can stop them if not Captain Damian Seeker?

The fifth gripping outing for Seeker in this acclaimed and award-winning series of historical thrillers. Will his legacy endure?

S.G. MacLean has a PhD in history from Aberdeen University, specializing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scottish history. She has written four highly acclaimed historical thrillers set in Scotland,The Redemption of Alexander Seaton(shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger),A Game of Sorrows,Crucibleof SecretsandThe Devil's Recruit, and a series of historical thrillers set in Oliver Cromwell's London. The first and third books in the series,The SeekerandDestroying Angel, have won the CWA Historical Dagger and the second,The Black Friar, was longlisted for the same award. S.G. MacLean is married with four children and lives in Conon Bridge, Scotland. Follow her on Instagram @iwritemybike2You won't find many period crime novels that match The Seeker series for insight and evocation of time and placeNB magazineComplexandgripping... thishigh-quality, deliciously moody seriescontinues to deliver.I long for moreFor Winter NightsExcellentat conveying theinsecurities and unsettling memoriesthat bedevil Cromwell's dying ProtectorateDaily MailMacLean'slight touch portrait of a hard man with a softer coreis what makes these books so memorableThe Times