The Knife Maker of Venice
I'm pleased to reveal the cover for my new standalone novel - The Knife Maker of Venice - to be published on August 10th.
A young Englishman captured by slavers must survive the snakepit that is seventeenth-century Venice.1604. Pirate raiders terrorise the coasts of Europe, seeking slaves to sell in the markets of North Africa.When headstrong Richard Sheriff and his beloved sister Elizabeth are torn from their Devonshire home by slavers, he is cast into a living nightmare.With Richard being a talented blacksmith, the pirate captain intends to sell him for a high price. He has other plans for Elizabeth... and once they are separated, Richard has no idea of his sister's fate.He is eventually sold into servitude in Venice: glittering, vicious city of secrets, where his talents find him apprenticed to a knife maker. He vows he will never stop looking for his sister – but first he must survive that city of ghosts, where life is cheap, profit is all and escape nigh-on impossible.
A polite reminder that advance orders really matter these days — they do things to the algorithms online stores use that are very important, so if the idea of the book appeals, an advanced order always helps.
