Ellis Blackwood

In London, 1666, drinking coffee can get you killed…The case of Samuel Pepys’s missing pocket watch escalates rapidly when Eustace Blount, writer and wit, is found murdered in Rose’s Coffee House on The Strand.Blount was a prig, a poseur and a...

The King’s mistresses are being murdered, one by one…When Samuel Pepys and his loyal inquisitors, Abby Harcourt and Jacob Standish, are summoned to King Charles II’s court, they anticipate frivolous entertainment and unimaginable luxury. Instead, they...

A gripping 17th century cozy historical mystery.A killer dressed as a plague doctor is terrorising London’s docks.Able seaman Humphrey Wilkes is dead, shot between the eyes by the murderer known as the Plague Doctor. When Samuel Pepys’s naval...

Three murders. One diarist. And two unlikely detectives navigating witch hunts, dockside devilry… and the underbelly of Restoration London.Step into the dark heart of 17th-century England with Samuel Pepys and his loyal inquisitors, Abigail Harcourt...