The Scent of Death

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-04-01 Pages: 516 Language: English Publisher:. Harper August. 1778 British-controlled Manhattan is a melting pot of soldiers. traitors and refugees. surrounded by rebel forces as the American War of Independence rages on . Into this simmering tension sails Edward Savill. a London clerk tasked with assessing the claims of loyalists who have lost out during the war.Savill lodges with the ageing Judge Wintour. his ailing wife. and their enigmatic daughter-in-law Arabella. However . as Savill soon learns. what the Wintours have lost in wealth. they have gained in secrets.The murder of a gentleman in the slums pulls Savill into the city's underbelly. But when life is so cheap. why does one death matter Because making a nation is a lucrative business. and some people cannot afford to miss out. whatever the price ...