Slay Ride

by Ian Honeysett, Peter Stevens

Overview

It’s 20th December 1791, the third year of the French Revolution, and the Inspector-General of Crime in Paris, Rouget Maison, is on the most important mission of his life - to prevent a war his arch-enemy, the ‘True Patriot’, is determined to foment. But it's fraught with danger. As his coach nears the Belgian border, he realises there is a large price on his head and that one of his five fellow passengers might well be an assassin. But, if so, which one (or more) is it? There’s the rotund, scowling banker, Hercules Oliver. The dapper tailor, Robert Christophe. The charming widow, Margaret Valois. Shy, young Isabelle Rochet who is due to marry on Christmas day. And the extremely talkative furniture-maker and author, Bertrand Des Rosch.
Slay Ride - a free Bastille Mysteries short story.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164731854
Publisher:	Ian Honeysett
Publication date:	10/19/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	347,169
File size:	256 KB

About the Author

I’m Ian Honeysett and I write historical crime fiction with an old college friend, Pete Stevens, with whom I wrote a number of comedy reviews when we were students at the Kent College for the Careers Service. Pete tells me we agreed that, when we retired, we would write books together. And that is what we have done. We share a love of history and murder (purely theoretical of course). Together we have written 4 historical novels set during the French Revolution and I’ve written a free novella (The Odd Fellow). I am also part of Godalming Writers' Group, based in my home-town of Godalming (Surrey, England) which has produced 2 books of short stories: Godalming Tales 1 & 2.
I am married to Jan. We have 3 children and live in Godalming, Surrey. My interests include travelling (well, I am retired), running quizzes, military history, parish work, editing a newsletter for laryngectomees, painting and playing the ukulele.

Peter Stevens completed his degree in Business Studies at Middlesex University in 1975. In 1977 he completed his Diploma in Careers Guidance at The Kent College for The Careers Service. It was here he met his future co-author, Ian Honeysett and they started their writing partnership by writing end of term reviews together.
After a long tenure in the Careers Service, twenty years of which were spent as head of service in the London borough of Barnet, Peter retired and over the last ten years has spent much of his time writing books, four of which (the Bastille series) he has written in conjunction with Ian.
In addition to his writing and interest in history and crime fiction Peter retains his lifelong interest in cricket as well as playing chess and badminton. He is a regular quiz-goer and is a member of two teams. He lives in Walthamstow with his partner, Liz.