num_pages: 488
description: 1643. The armies of King Charles I and Parliament clash in the streets and fields of England threatening to tear the country apart as winter closes in around the parliamentary stronghold of Nantwich. The royalists have pillaged the town before and now they are returning. But even with weeks to prepare before the Civil War is once more at its gates that doesnt mean the people of Nantwich are safe.While the garrison of soldiers commanded by Colonel George Booth stand guard the towns residents wait eyeing the outside world with unease unaware that they face a deadly threat from within. Townspeople are being murdered  the red sashes of the royalists left on the bodies marking them as traitors to the parliamentary cause.When the first dead man is found his skull caved in with a rock fingers start being pointed and old hatreds rise to the surface. It falls to Constable Daniel Cheswis to contain the bloodshed deputising his friend Alexander Clowes to help him in his investigations carried out with the eyes of both armies on his back. And they are not the only ones watching him.He is surrounded by enemies and between preparing for the imminent battle watching over his family being reunited with his long-lost sweetheart and trying somehow to stay in business he barely has time to solve a murder.With few clues and the constant distraction of war can Cheswis protect the people of Nantwich? And which among them need protecting? Whether they are old friends or troubled family in these treacherous times everyones a traitor in war law or love.When the Winter Siege is through who will be among the bodies?
language: English
title: The Winter Siege
publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.