Lady Mabel's Gold

Lady Mabel’s Gold
S. P. Caldwell

Freelance journalist Jenny Bradshaigh feels she is flogging a dead horse when her story about a raid on a Crusader’s grave is rejected by newspaper editors. But a mysterious murder and a burglary at a second vault thrusts the reporter toward the biggest story of her career as she leads the hunt for thieves using trafficked children to find the most valuable treasure trove since the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Simon Caldwell has produced a pacey historical thriller with echoes of Graham Greene. Lady Mabel’s Gold is a truly original novel with excellent writing, clever plot twists and a cast of memorable characters which put Caldwell at the front rank of Catholic novelists today. William Cash

Simon Caldwell is a writer of real integrity. This is an immensely readable novel, with an outcome that goes beyond life and death, because it deals with redemption and damnation. Few contemporary novels do as much.

Melanie McDonagh

Caldwell's ability to suggest the presence of grace in disgraceful situations is a rare gift indeed. He takes us into the dark to lead us to the merest suggestion of the light. Rarely have I found myself so excited by the emergence of a new literary talent. Joseph Pearce

Simon Caldwell has worked as a journalist since the 1990s, spending more than a decade on the foreign desk of the Daily Mail, and in 2022 Gracewing published his debut novel, The Beast of Bethulia Park (see below). He lives in Lancashire where he continues to work as a journalist and media consultant.