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Three completed novels, none of them published and none under representation. All rights are available.

The False Eagle

The Linden Inheritance · Book One

When his daughter puts her foot through a Tuscan hillside into a chamber cut two thousand years ago, a Roman-antiquities authenticator picks up the treasure hunt that destroyed the villa’s last owner — under the eyes of quiet men who never stopped watching.

Length
86,000 words
Category
Upmarket mystery, with book club appeal
Structure
A present-day strand braided with interludes set between 1965 and 1970
Series
First of a planned five-book series. The story is complete in itself.
Comparable
The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner · The Stolen Queen, Fiona Davis · Still Life, Sarah Winman
Status
Complete. Full manuscript available.

The Burn Order

The Linden Inheritance · Book Two

Five months on, the same family is drawn into a second search — from Venice to the Adriatic coast and into the hill towns of Umbria, where a scholar’s puzzle turns dangerous and they realise they are not the only ones looking.

Length
110,000 words
Category
Upmarket mystery
Structure
The same braid as The False Eagle — a present-day strand carried alongside six historical interludes, spanning 44 BC to 1962
Series
Second of the planned five. Follows The False Eagle.
Comparable
The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd · The Stolen Queen, Fiona Davis · Homecoming, Kate Morton
Status
Complete in draft. Full manuscript available.

The Boar’s Head Blade

A standalone novel

Saint John, New Brunswick, 1971. Four fifteen-year-olds set out to find what became of Pierre Bennart — a deckhand who took a locked case from Champlain’s cabin in a storm in 1604 and was never seen again. The retired teacher who gave them the story has been looking for the same man for twenty years, and nobody has ever believed him.

Length
72,000 words
Category
Young adult historical mystery
Readership
Ages 12–16
Structure
Four dated sections from 1604 run ahead of the 1971 investigation — the reader watches the thing being hidden, then watches four teenagers spend a school year working out where
Series
Standalone.
Comparable
Truly Devious, Maureen Johnson · Under the Same Stars, Libba Bray · The Red Palace, June Hur
Status
Complete. Full manuscript available.

About the author. Andrew Shaw has lived in Saint John, New Brunswick for more than forty years. Before fiction he spent his career in tourism, building and running escorted tours across Europe, and years on the ground in Italy. In 2016 he worked a season on an archaeological dig at Ostia Antica with the American Institute for Roman Culture, under Dr. Darius Arya. Fuller biography →

To request a manuscript or discuss rights, write to andrew@andrewdshaw.ca. Enquiries from agents and publishers are answered personally.

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