Arum by Amanda Taylor cover image

Aram

The County of Yorkshire, 1759. Late one summer afternoon a horseman is forced to confront a corpse swinging in chains from a squeaking gibbet post on Knaresborough forest.

The man in chains is familiar to the horseman. Only a few days before Felix Kendle covered the trial of Eugene Aram, in York, as a correspondent on the Gentleman’s Magazine.

Now he has come to Aram’s home town to witness the repercussions following his hanging. Knaresborough is divided as to the schoolmaster’s guilt and is set to riot. Aram is a true story of class and religious bigotry, fraud, incest and murder. The story unfolds through the investigative eyes of Kendle.

Available at

"This award-nominated Dales author hopes not only to entertain but solve a real-life murder mystery from the 18th century."
Graham Chalmers

More books by Amanda

Tombstone Makers Daughter book cover image
Out Soon

The Tombstone Maker’s Daughter

The Tombstone Maker’s Daughter is a love story blighted by events in an England emerging from war, plague and the Puritan age.

Read more

Absurd Petunias

A contemporary love story, a spy story and a story of resolution.

Read more

The Falcon With A Virgin’s Face

Based on a true story. How historical events affected our ancestors whether rich or poor.

Read more

The Vigil of Rain

The Vigil of Rain. As things turned out it would be a weekend I would never forget, none of us would. A murder mystery that will keep you guessing to the end.

Read more

Mortimer Blakely is Missing

Where to put it. That was a major problem.

Read more

Dangerous Waves

A murder story set in the Victorian fishing village of Staithes.

Read more