Book description
London, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn. They call him a murderer. But Tom Hawkins is innocent and somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him.
It is, of course, all his…
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1 author picked The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Having loved the first book in this series – and wondered how it had taken me this long to discover them! – I knew I would love this sequel. And I wasn’t wrong.
From the first page you, as the reader, are thrust back into the world of 18th-century London, with all of its noises, smells, and hazards. Thomas Hawkins, our hero, is a loveable rogue, who in this story is getting ever closer, literally, to the hangman’s noose… and the tense finale right there at the gallows is enough to keep you reading long past bedtime!
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