30
Followers
10
Following
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Never stop reading. (Content originally posted at Blogger.)
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins, by Antonia Hodgson
One would think that his experiences in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison (chronicled in The Devil in the Marshalsea) would have set Thomas Hawkins firmly on the straight and narrow. It’s clear from the first pages of Antonia Hodgson’s The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins that this has not happened. We rejoin our hapless hero as he is on his way to Tyburn to be hanged for murder. Hawkins reveals his sorry path to the gallows in flashbacks, hoping against hope that a pardon will come...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.
2