TY - SOUND AU - Tyler,L.C. AU - Dyer,Kris TI - A cruel necessity T2 - A John Grey Historical Mystery SN - 9781489350541 PY - 2016/// CY - [Melbourne, Vic.] PB - Bolinda/Audible audio KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Fiction KW - Audiobooks KW - Historical fiction, English N1 - 9 audio CDs; Duration: 10:09:00; Read by Kris Dyer; Adult N2 - The theatres are padlocked. Christmas has been cancelled. It is 1657, and the unloved English Republic is eight years old. Though Cromwell's joyless grip on power appears immovable, many still look to Charles Stuart's dissolute and threadbare court-in-exile, and some are prepared to risk their lives plotting a restoration. For the officers of the Republic, constant vigilance is needed. So, when the bloody corpse of a Royalist spy is discovered on the dung heap of a small Essex village, why is the local magistrate so reluctant to investigate? John Grey, a young lawyer with no clients, finds himself alone in believing that the murdered man deserves justice. Grey is drawn into a vortex of plot and counterplot and into the all-encompassing web of intrigue spun by Cromwell's own spymaster, John Thurloe. So when nothing is what is seems, can Grey trust anyone? ER -