Jemahl Evans
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A Visit to Bedlam
“Blandford Candy is as endearing a rogue as you are likely to find in any work of literature.” Matthew Harffy, author of the Bernicia Chronicles.
1648
The English Civil War still simmers, ready to boil over at any moment.
Captain Blandford Candy, a renowned rake, serves as a reluctant spy for Parliament.
Blandford’s oldest friend, Hezekiah Hillier, a mild-mannered widower from Wiltshire, visits London and travels to Bedlam to view the inmates.
Betrayed by his brother and falsely imprisoned in the asylum, Hez vows to escape and take his revenge.
Blandford helps Hez to flee to France. The fugitive joins the Company of Moliere as an actor, fights with the King of France’s Musketeers in their war with Spain, and learns how to kill.
In England, Blandford rises high in the new republic, despite a failed romance with his commander’s wife, and becomes an important agent for Cromwell. He is at the heart of the fighting during the bloody Battle of The Dunes.
When a series of brutal murders are discovered in London after King Charles’ restoration, only Blandford knows the truth and only Blandford can stop the assassin.
It will take a killer to catch a killer.
Praise for Jemahl Evans:
‘The research is impeccable and the writing full of verve.’ Antonia Senior, The Times
‘It's great fun and a rollicking good read.’ Historical Novel Society
‘Frankly, glorious.’ Michael Jecks
PRAISE FOR THE BLANDFORD CANDY HISTORIES.
Blandford ‘Sugar’ Candy sits right up there with Rose Tremain’s Merivel as one of the great creations of a seventeenth century man.
Deborah Swift author of The Lady's Slipper
Blandford Candy is as endearing a rogue as you are likely to find in any work of literature.
Matthew Harffy author of the Bernicia Chronicles.
The research is impeccable and the writing full of verve.
Antonia Senior, The Times.
It's great fun and a rollicking good read.
Historical Novel Society.
Frankly, glorious.
Michael Jecks (Author of Blood in the Sand)
Evans rewards those who have studied the period with a wealth of gritty detail.
David Luckhardt, English Civil War Society of America
The best historical fiction I have read in years!
James Kemp, themself.org
Superbly written, engaging and never less than absorbing.
Harper Collins Review
The filth, degradation and debauchery are vividly portrayed.
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