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The Counterfeit Madam

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21st June 2012

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781780331614

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Gil Cunningham had hoped that the first time he set foot in the brothel on the Drygate it would also be his last, but by the time all was settled he felt quite at home within its artfully painted chambers.

The bawdy house, along with the neighbouring property and two more in Strathblane, are all part of a deal offered to Gil and his wife Alys by the forceful Dame Isabella. Her proposal also involves Gil’s young ward, and matters are further confused by an outbreak of counterfeit coins in Glasgow, which Gil has been ordered to investigate.

Then Dame Isabella is found dead in strange circumstances, and the more Gil pursues the cause of her death, the more false coins he finds. And then the bawd-mistress, the enigmatic Madam Xanthe, gets involved and rumours circulate that the Devil is abroad in Strathblane. By the time Gil and Alys have untangled matters, some very surprising – and sinister – thing have come to light…


Praise for Pat McIntosh’s Gil Cunnigham series:

‘McIntosh’s characterisations and period detail are first rate’ – Publishers Weekly, starred review

‘The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed’ – Historical Novels Review

”Will do for Glasgow in the fifteenth century what Ellis Peters and her Brother Cadfael did for Shrewsbury in the twelfth’ – Mystery Readers Journal

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Publishers Weekly, starred review
Praise for Pat McIntosh & the Gill Cunningham mysteries: McIntosh's characterisations and period detail are first rate.
Historical Novels Review
The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed.
Mystery Readers Journal
Will do for Glasgow in the fifteenth century what Ellis Peters and her Brother Cadfael did for Shrewsbury in the twelfth.