{"product_id":"9781631941054","title":"A Cruel Necessity","description":"Two-time Edgar nominee LC Tyler is best known for his series featuring Ethelred and Elsie – a third-rate novelist and his gloriously vulgar agent, respectively. And so he should be: He’s twice won Britain’s “Last Laugh” award for the Best Humorous Mystery of the Year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut with A Cruel Necessity, the first in the John Grey series, Tyler takes a sharp turn into the shadows. There are still some chuckles to be had, but not many: This is England in the year 1657, Oliver Cromwell is in power, and joy has essentially been outlawed. A young lawyer with a taste for beer and pretty women, Grey finds pleasures enough, even in this backwater Essex town, but he’d be wise to keep his amusement to himself: A Royalist spy has been found dead in a local ditch, and Cromwell’s agents are eager – distressingly eager – to explain to Grey that this is nothing to laugh about.","brand":"Felony \u0026 Mayhem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136376815856,"sku":"9781631941054","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781631941054_p0.jpg?v=1769887849","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781631941054","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}