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Bruce Alexander
Bruce Alexander wrote the Sir John Fielding historical mystery series, which includes the novel Smuggler's Moon. His stories follow a blind magistrate solving crimes in eighteenth-century London.
Smuggler's moon
Synopsis
Sir John Fielding, the blind magistrate of Bow Street, travels to the coastal town of Deal to investigate a massive smuggling ring. Accompanied by his young protégé Jeremy Proctor, the judge must navigate a community where the line between honest citizen and criminal is blurred by the lucrative trade in contraband. Their search for the truth leads them into a dangerous web of local corruption and murder along the English coast.