The Watchmaker of Filigree Street somehow passed me by and after reading The Bedlam Stacks I am very disappointed I didn’t get around to reading The Watchmaker of Filigree Street first. Many people are familiar with Natasha Pulley’s writing after reading The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, I am not one of those people. How do they work? And why does the young priest Raphael seem to know Merrickâ€™s grandfather even though he visited Peru decades earlier. The longer they stay in the village the more fascinated Merrick becomes with the strange stone statues that line the village and almost seem to be alive. The newcomers are warned not to cross the salt lined boundary into the forest but with the time sensitivity of their mission will they listen. On arriving in Bedlam Merrick and Clem are surprised by the level of superstition among the locals. All that awaits him in Cornwall is a fractious relationship with his brother who thinks Merrick is slowly descending into madness. Knowing this, Merrick knows it is madness for him to try where others have failed, especially with his injured leg. Those who have arrived in Peru on previous expeditions to gather this precious resource havenâ€™t made it out of Peru alive. The locals want to maintain the monopoly on their trees and they arenâ€™t happy with foreigners trying to take their product away. Clem and the East India Company want Merrick to help them take cuttings from the Cinchona tree in order to get quinine, a substance needed in the cure for malaria. So, when his old friend Clem arrives to convince him to come on an expedition to Peru. As a former smuggler for the East India Company Merrick sustained an injury to his leg which left him needing a cane. Merrick Treymayne is feeling stifled and unwanted since moving back to his family home in Cornwall with his curmudgeonly brother Charles.

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The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley