If the villain gets away, it is an author's duty to see justice done, isn't it?

“Warfare gives men plenty of experiences they could do without. Even earning respect will get a man noticed when it might not be in his best interests. I got noticed, and by one of the highest lawyers in the land no less. He gave me a job to do. At the beginning it all seemed simple enough, even though it was a task tightly proscribed, for correctness’ sake. But matters seldom run smooth and circumstances change. And my motives … well, let me simply say they were … knotty.”
DANIEL EDWARDS

A Holyer an Gof PRIZE WINNING NOVEL
To Untie a Sealed Knot'

Pendennis Castle, Cornwall, 1649: A prominent Commonwealth judge and regicide, seeks a man with an enquiring mind for a mission to gather evidence to hang a murderer. Success will be well rewarded; failure is out of the question.
Daniel Edwards has his own reasons for accepting the commission; not least being a promise to the woman he loves. Yet to condemn a villain implicates an innocent man and the deeper Daniel’s investigations go, the more challenging are the choices he has to make. Uncovering treachery reveals old associates, rekindles former loyalties and weaves a web of deceit where to betray a trust will place both friends and a future king in peril.

Reviews for the Pendennis novels:
 Exposed to All Villainies
“Steph Haxton draws the stories of her three spirited souls together with such skill one can all but hear the beat of the drums that rattled orders within the granite walls of Pendennis Castle.”
WESTERN MORNING NEWS
 
A Cord of Three Strands
Grace, Hester and Mary: ‘Their adventures are as compelling and convincing as they are varied and vital’.
WESTERN MORNING NEWS