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John Bainbridge

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Crime, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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John Bainbridge is the author of the thrillers. The Shadow Of William Quest, Deadly Quest and Dark Shadow, set in the Victorian underworld of the 1850s and Balmoral Kill and Dangerous Game - Golden Age style spy thrillers set in the 1930s.
John has written four historical novels in the series The Chronicles of Robin Hood: Loxley, Wolfshead, Villain and Legend. These take the legendary outlaw back to a gritty medieval reality.
A countryside access campaigner, John also writes non-fiction books about walking in the British countryside, Rambling - Some Thoughts on Country Walking, The Compleat Trespasser, Footloose in Devon, Footloose with George Borrow, and a memoir, Wayfarer's Dole.
He is currently writing a prequel to the William Quest nove ...more

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	The Shadow of William Quest (William Quest #1) 4.28 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Seaside Mourning (Inspector Abbs Mystery, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loxley (The Chronicles of Robin Hood, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly Quest (William Quest #2) 4.40 avg rating — 129 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Shadow (William Quest #3) 4.43 avg rating — 96 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Holly House Mystery (Inspector Chance #1.5) by John Bainbridge (Goodreads Author), Anne Bainbridge 4.17 avg rating — 76 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolfshead (The Chronicles of Robin Hood, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Villain (The Chronicles of Robin Hood #3) 4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Newgate Shadow (William Quest #4) 4.73 avg rating — 41 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balmoral Kill: A 1930s Spy Thriller 4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“After she had spoken she looked out the window once more. Darkness had fallen and she could see only her own reflection in the glass. The intruder had gone, though she had scarcely noticed him slip away. She looked at herself in the window. Soon there would be no reflection of her anywhere at all.”
― John Bainbridge, The Shadow of William Quest

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“The stink from the Thames was particularly bad on the morning air. It had been foul the night before as he wandered through the corridors of parliament. The stench seemed to cast a dreadful miasma across so much of London, and not just on warmer days.”
― John Bainbridge, Deadly Quest

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“Lovat liked and detested London at the same time. He loathed the poverty that was all around and hated the smug indifference towards it from so many of the people he had to work with. He thought of Mrs Litvinov, a woman without two brass tacks to rub together, but more capacity for kindness than anyone very much in Whitehall. Mrs Litvinov and her kind ought to run the country, he thought. And what a better country it might be.”
― John Bainbridge, Balmoral Kill: A 1930s Spy Thriller

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