{"product_id":"9780008108618","title":"Andrew Taylor 2-Book Collection: The American Boy, The Scent of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo historical thrillers from the award-winning and bestselling Andrew Taylor. ‘Taylor wrote superb historical fiction long before Hilary Mantel was popular’ Daily Telegraph\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE AMERICAN BOY:\u003c\/strong\u003e England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes entwined in their family’s affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, it is not certain who either the victim or the killer is. But all clues seem to lead back to the Frant household, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd what of the strange American boy at the heart of these macabre events – what is the dark secret of young Edgar Allan Poe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE SCENT OF DEATH:\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this simmering tension sails Edward Savill, a London clerk tasked with assessing the claims of loyalists who have lost out during the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSavill 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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…\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47275084677269,"sku":"9780008108618","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008108618.png?v=1776890087","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008108618","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}