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Andrew Shaw

Literary mysteries about buried things — and the people who go looking for them.

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The books

The Linden Inheritance

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The False Eagle

A family on a March-break holiday in the Tuscan hills finds the thing a dead man spent eight years of his life looking for — and learns why he never told anyone.

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The Burn Order

Five months after their discovery in Tuscany, the Linden family is drawn into a new search — one that leads from Venice to the Adriatic coast and into the hill towns of Umbria.

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Standalone Novels

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The Boar’s Head Blade

Saint John, New Brunswick, 1971. Four fifteen-year-olds set out to find what became of a man who vanished from a 1604 expedition — and of the jewelled sword he carried away with him.

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Two mysteries you can solve without having read a word of the books.

There are four smaller games in The Field Kit as well — quick ones, and each finished puzzle adds a card to the kit.

About the Author

Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw is a Saint John native who has proudly called the city home for more than forty years — the same harbour town, three centuries earlier, that The Boar’s Head Blade is set in.

In the summer of 2016 he worked a season on an archaeological dig at Ostia Antica, the harbour city of ancient Rome, where the team uncovered a buried mausoleum holding the remains of more than fifty women and children. He does not write ancient Rome from books alone; he has knelt in its dirt with a trowel. The False Eagle grew out of that trench.

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