MORE PRAISE FOR A CONSPIRACY OF PAPER This remarkably accomplished first novel has a great deal going on... It is above all a headlong adventure yarn full of dastardly villains, brawls, wenches and as commanding a hero as has graced a novel in some time. He is Benjamin Weaver. The period detail is authentic but never obtrusive; the dialogue is a marvel of courtly locution masking murderous bluntness; and the plot, though devious in the extreme, never becomes opaque. It seems clear that Weaver is being set up as a series hero, which can only be good news for lovers of the best in dashing historical fiction. - Publishers Weekly "Highly Entertaining... Fiendishly Intricate... A well-researched and highly entertaining historical mystery... [A] tale of financial skullduggery and multiple murder... Conveyed in vivid extended scenes characterized by crisp dialogue and a keen sense of the ways in which character reveals itself... The very model of a modern historical mystery." - Kirkus Reviews    [a starred review] "Set in a vividly realized eighteenth-century London... the pacing is completely modern. Although a financial boom fueled by a new economy or a personal struggle with ethnic identity may seem awfully contemporary, Liss keeps us firmly in another time... The book crackles with period detail, yet the immense research never shows... One can only hope that Liss isn't finished with Benjamin Weaver." - Booklist CLOSE