Lloyd is a writer and secondary school teacher. The Bloodless Boy is his first novel. He gained a First Class BA degree in Fine Art, and an MA in the History of Ideas, when he discovered Robert Hooke and his New Philosophical Club. He is married and has three splendid children, and lives in the Brecon Beacons. Follow him on Twitter as @robjlloyd. The Bloodless Boy London, 1678. The blood-drained body of a young boy is discovered in the snow on the bank of the Fleet River. Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey, Justice of the Peace, sets out to investigate this sinister killing with the help of Robert Hooke, Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society, and his assistant Harry Hunt. On Sir Edmund’s orders Hooke and Harry preserve the body as evidence at Gresham College. When a solicitor delivers a coded letter to Hooke, he recognises the code as being one used during the Civil War thirty years before, and discovers that Sir Edmund had in fact used it at that time to assist King Charles II’s escape to France.
