Laurence Jago Books in Order

In 1794 London, opium-dependent Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago comes under suspicion after a dangerous letter leaks to the press. Discovering a colleague’s apparent suicide, he investigates a possible murder while trying to keep his own secrets from exposure.

Traveling undercover to Philadelphia in 1795, Laurence Jago must protect a diplomat carrying a treaty crucial to Britain’s war. When the diplomat dies and the document disappears, Laurence searches a ship full of suspects before becoming the next victim.

Laurence Jago returns to Cornwall during a bitter election where only two men can vote. Their suspicious deaths lead him into local rivalries, and when his cousin becomes a suspect, solving the case becomes a deeply personal responsibility.