The King Was In His Counting House

by Daniel McCoy

A South London chancer stumbles across a hundred year-old mystery when a rich and beautiful woman asks him to find her missing husband. He finds himself in a world he barely understands, of cryptography and cryptic puzzles, of secret funds and great power politics. And most puzzling of all, what was the connection between a murder, a small, exclusive bank and what one royal biographer described as the most perplexing act of a king's reign: "The abandonment of a loyal ally and much-loved cousin to degradation and death"?

Genres: Historical Fiction

284 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2016

Reviews

[Daniel Weir · Rating 1 out of 5]

A disappointment. I don’t mind novels with unhappy endings; sometimes they have to end that way. But I do mind novels that have no ending. I had to turn back the page and reread the final section to make sure that I hadn’t skip a page or missed something that would make sense of the abrupt ending. There was nothing there. No resolution at all.

[Susan · Rating 1 out of 5]

I could not finish this book. Not at all what I expected. Slow, plodding and not interesting in the least.