jacey | Booklog 10/2025: Douglas Skelton: An Honourable Thief

Narrated by David Monteath

Jonas Flynt, ex soldier, ex-highwayman, has been blackmailed into the Company of Rogues, run by government spymaster Nathaniel Charters. Set in 1715 – at the time of the first Jacobite rising - the late Queen Anne’s papers have gone missing and Charters fears the papers might have included a will which will upset the Hanoverian succession. Jonas is sent to seek out the will – but when the trail leads him from the shady streets of London back to his native Edinburgh, his estranged family, and the woman he once loved, life gets complicated. Weaving a fictional story around real events and historical characters, this is a fascinating tale well told. Expect riots, skullduggery, unexpected revelations (and one twist you can see coming a mile off).