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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