An Instance Of The Fingerpost

An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling
historical 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 Cromwells
short-lived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of
the country a place of great scientific religious and
political ferment. A fellow of New College is found dead
in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of
his murder. We hear the story of the death from four
witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit
for the invention of blood transfusion; the son of an
alleged Royalist traitor; a master cryptographer who has
worked for both Cromwell and the king; and a renowned
Oxford antiquarian. Each tells his own version of what
happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth. With
rights sold for record-breaking sums around the world An
Instance of the Fingerpost is destined to become a major
international publishing event. Deserving of comparison to
the works of John Fowles and Umberto Eco Iain Pearss novel
is an ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling
historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and
keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.