Fatal Forgery

by Susan Grossey

Overview

It is 1824, and trust in the virtual money of the day – new paper financial instruments – is so fragile that anyone forging them is sent to the scaffold. So why would one of London’s most respected bankers start forging his clients’ signatures? Sent to arrest Henry Fauntleroy, Constable Samuel Plank is determined to find out why the banker has risked his reputation, his banking house and his neck – and why he is so determined to plead guilty. As the case makes its way through the Regency justice system, exercising the finest legal minds of their generation and dividing London society into the banker’s supporters and detractors, Plank races against time to find the answers that can save Fauntleroy’s life.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045330077
Publisher:	Susan Grossey
Publication date:	10/06/2013
Series:	The Sam Plank Mysteries , #1
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	400 KB

About the Author

I have been in love with words ever since I realised, at age three, that those squiggles on the page actually meant something. I edited the school newspaper (is here the place to confess that I was also the author of the section giving all the gossip on who was going out with whom?) and did lots more reading and writing at university (where, of course, I studied English).

For twenty-five years I ran my own anti-money laundering consultancy, which gave me almost limitless opportunity to write about my very favourite subject: money laundering. And the obsession with understanding the mechanics and motivations of financial crime has only grown.

I have spent years haunting the streets of Regency London, in the company of magistrates' constable Sam Plank. He is the narrator of my series of historical financial crime novels set in consecutive years in the 1820s - just before Victoria came to the throne, and in the policing period after the Bow Street Runners and before the Metropolitan Police.

The fourth Sam Plank novel - "Portraits of Pretence" - was given the "Book of the Year 2017" award by influential book review website Discovering Diamonds. And the fifth - "Faith, Hope and Trickery" - was shortlisted for the Selfies Award 2019.

And I am now researching the first in a new series set in Cambridge in the 1820s, narrated by a university constable called Gregory Hardiman.

Editorial Reviews

"A wonderfully entertaining novel from first page to last, ‘Fatal Forgery’ showcases the impressive and gifted storytelling talents of author Susan Grossey and will leave the reader looking eagerly toward her next effort." The Midwest Book Review

"Set in 1824 the Regency period is brought vividly to life through picturesque descriptions and believable dialogue; I could almost hear and smell London. I found it to be so educational about the period showing great research by the author married with great imagination and storytelling." The Kindle Book Review

"Given the present-day banking scandals that regularly hit the headlines, ‘Fatal Forgery’ does what all good historical fiction should do and mirrors our current time with an event in the past: in this case, a banking scandal of 1824… The novel shows a depth of knowledge one would expect from the author as she is an anti-money laundering consultant by trade." The Historical Novel Society

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