Destroying Angel (Damian Seeker #3) by S. G. MacLean

York, 1655: The era of the Major-Generals has dawned, and Captain Damian Seeker has gone north.

Under the command of Colonel Robert Lilburne, Seeker is ordered to the village of Faithly on the Yorkshire moors to brief the local commissioner on the latest anti-Royalist laws. What should be a routine visit will reveal a plot to rival anything in London.

Faithly is a cauldron of resentment and fear, brought to boiling point by the imminent arrival of the Trier: the government-appointed enforcer of Puritan morality. There are those determined to use the occasion to revenge old grudges and, most worrying of all, ten years after the Witchfinder spread panic and murder, whispers of witchcraft persist.

When the commissioner's young ward is poisoned, Seeker must find the meaning behind the death -- an accident, a village quarrel got out of control, or was the intended victim someone else? But who is in the village, if anyone, can he trust? And when the most painful part of his part reappears after eleven years, will Seeker meet his match? 

Genres: Historical Fiction - Mystery - Crime - Historical Mystery - 17th Century - British Literature - Thriller - Scottish Author