A Game of Sorrows, 9781849162449
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A cursed family, dark secrets, and a deadly game of sorrows.

A Game of Sorrows

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  • Paperback

    398 pages

  • Release Date

    31 December 2010

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Summary

A Family Curse: An Alexander Seaton Thriller

Second historical thriller in the Alexander Seaton series sweeps the hero back to his roots in Ulster, and a family living under a curse and riven with long-held secrets

Aberdeen, 1628.

Alexander Seaton’s happily settled life as a university teacher is shattered by the arrival in town of a stranger who looks like his twin and who carries a plea for help from Alexander’s dead mother’s family in Ireland. The…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781849162449
ISBN-10:1849162441
Series:Alexander Seaton
Author:S.G. MacLean
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:Quercus Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:398
Release Date:31 December 2010
Weight:291g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘A fine, rich, beautiful historical thriller - literate, engaging and moving’ Manda Scott.– Manda Scott

Pacy and literate. Such is the quality of the recreation, not only of the reeking ebb and flow of everyday life but also of the period mindset that it’s easy to believe Satan is walking abroad … accomplished and thought-provoking - Guardian

Richly laden with historical detail but MacLean wears her scholarship lightly. Flashes of humour ensure that the sympathy remains with Seaton, an entertaining narrator. An absorbing foray into Scottish history - Times Literary Supplement

The vivid evocation of a particular time and place by an author whose uncle was Alistair MacLean and who is herself a historian specialising in 16th and 17th century Scotland. She has used her gifts to the full to create a truly memorable and exciting read - Historical Novels Review

About The Author

S.G. MacLean

S.G. MacLean (Shona) has a PhD in History from the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of two historical crime series - the Alexander Seaton series, set in seventeenth century Scotland and the Damian Seeker series, set in Oliver Cromwell’s London, for which she has twice won the CWA Historical Dagger. Her standalone Jacobite thriller, The Bookseller of Inverness, was Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2023. Shona lives in Conon Bridge, Scotland.

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