Blue Water: the Instant Times Bestseller

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AN INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A truly gripping read' - The Guardian


'Fabulous, a delight' - S.G. MACLEAN


'A fine adventure reminiscent of Patrick O'Brian' - Sunday Times



This is the secret report of Laurence Jago. Unwilling spy. Reluctant sailor. Accidental detective.

New Year 1795, and Laurence Jago is aboard the Tankerville mail ship, en route to Philadelphia. Laurence is travelling undercover, supposedly as a journalist's assistant. But his real mission is to protect a civil servant, en route to Congress with a vital treaty that will stop the Americans from joining the French in their war against Britain.

When the civil servant meets an unfortunate - and apparently accidental - end, the treaty disappears, and Laurence realises that only he can keep the Americans out of the war. Trapped on the ship with a strange assortment of travellers including two penniless French aristocrats, an Irish actress and a dancing bear, Laurence must hunt down both the lost treaty and the murderer, before he has a tragic 'accident' himself...

The new page-turning historical mystery from the author of Black Drop, a 2021 Times Book of the Year. Perfect for readers of Andrew Taylor, Laura Shepherd-Robinson and S.J. Parris.

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'A satisfying nautical mystery' - The Times

'Will have you hooked from start to finish' - Metro

'Intrigue, tension, memorable characters and shipboard life depicted in all its reeking authenticity add up to a truly gripping read' - The Guardian

'A fine adventure reminiscent of the Patrick O'Brian novels' - Sunday Times

'Fabulous... A delight. Nattrass again and again had me wondering at her skill and marvellous turn of phrase in filtering complex eighteenth-century history in a way that resonates with our own times' - S. G. MacLean, author of The Seeker

Author Bio

Leonora Nattrass lectured on the literature and politics of the 18th century for almost ten years before running away to Cornwall, where she now lives in a seventeenth-century house with seventeenth-century draughts and knits the wool of her small flock of Ryeland sheep into elaborate jumpers.

Her first novel Black Drop was a Times Book of the Year and her second Blue Water was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Find her on Twitter @LeonoraNattrass