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rsdsharp

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6. I just started Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell.

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Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:50 AM

Aug 2025

Former army captain Rider Sandman is given a job by the Home Secretary to investigate the guilt of a man convicted of rape and murder in London in 1820. The Home Secretary expects Sandman to beat a confession out of the condemned man, but Sandman doesn’t believe he’s guilty.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 10, 2025? [View all] hermetic Aug 2025 OP

Wonderful! Bayard Aug 2025 #1

Oooh, intriguing hermetic Aug 2025 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 2025 #2

The Mercies by kiran millwood hargrave Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #4

I suspect it will be hermetic Aug 2025 #8

So happy for your successful cataract surgery and proposed library visit! On my list to schedule txwhitedove Aug 2025 #5

Thanks! hermetic Aug 2025 #9

I just started Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell. rsdsharp Aug 2025 #6

He writes hermetic Aug 2025 #10

Shadow Prey/John Sandford cbabe Aug 2025 #7

Wow hermetic Aug 2025 #11