The Reiver

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Pub Date 02 Dec 2020 | Archive Date 26 Jan 2021

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For four hundred years between the 13th and 17th centuries, the Border Reivers terrorised people on both sides of the border. Often encouraged by the respective crowns, Reivers, or Raiders, showed no mercy to those they were attacking. Murder, arson and theft were commonplace and victim’s families were said to have been ‘bereaved’. Then, as the countries united, offenders were threatened with execution or deportation, and things slowly calmed down. Raids within the border lands became a thing of the past. 

Two hundred and fifty years later Cumberland and South West Scotland are a long way from the battle fields of World War 1. It’s easy to imagine that the violence and horrors of the conflict will only be felt many miles away in foreign lands. Nothing could be further from the truth. The murder of a soldier, arson attack on a barracks full of new recruits, horrific crash of a troop train transporting reinforcements south to the front line and an attempt to sabotage a local munitions works suggest an even more deadly raider has found his way to the border lands. It falls to habitual pipe smoker Inspector ‘Smoking Joe’ Johnstone of the Carlisle City Police to track him down and eliminate the threat. But can he do so before more lives are lost or before he himself becomes a victim of ‘The Reiver’?

For four hundred years between the 13th and 17th centuries, the Border Reivers terrorised people on both sides of the border. Often encouraged by the respective crowns, Reivers, or Raiders, showed no...


A Note From the Publisher

Mike Routledge has at various times been both a primary and secondary school headteacher, school inspector and Associate Head of Education at a university college. A proud Cumbrian he lives with his family in Carlisle. ‘The Reiver’ is his first novel.

Mike Routledge has at various times been both a primary and secondary school headteacher, school inspector and Associate Head of Education at a university college. A proud Cumbrian he lives with his...


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this was a interesting read, I enjoyed the time period used in the book and getting to know the characters. It was well written and I look forward to more.

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