The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Raven Scholar, a gritty and compelling historical mystery thriller

**Buy The Raven Scholar now - a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue from Sunday Times bestselling Antonia Hodgson**'A historical crime series that gets better with every book' Andrew Taylor 'Intelligent and engrossing read' Sunday Times'Historical fiction just doesn't get any better than this. Magnificent!' Jeffery Deaver 'A terrific swash-and-buckle story' Daily MailLondon, 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. It is, of course, all his own fault. He was happy settling down with Kitty Sparks. He should never have told the most dangerous criminal in London that he was bored and looking for adventure. He should never have offered to help, the king's mistress. And most of all, he should never have trusted the witty, calculating Queen Caroline.
She has promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue but then again, there is nothing more silent than a hanged man.