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13 Park Lane

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“Thoroughly captivating”

“Beautifully written”

“A bright new star on the
crime fiction scene”

Upcoming talk

Free talk: The Spectacular Downfall of a Victorian Detective

A talk for Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival 2025 and National Crime Reading Week

Naomi Clifford explores the life of Chief Inspector Nathaniel Druscovich, the ‘golden boy’ of the Metropolitan Police detective division, who was caught up in a major corruption scandal and died in Vauxhall in disgrace. Druscovich appears as a character in Naomi’s recent true crime novel 13 Park Lane.

FREE

Date: 25 June 2025, 6.30pm

Place: Tate South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1QP

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Books by Naomi Clifford

13 Park Lane
Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver
Out of the Shadows: Essays on 18th and 19th Century Women
On the Wings of Love: Georgian Elopement Stories
The Murder of Mary Ashford
Women and the Gallows 1797-1837
The Disappearance of Maria Glenn

Praise for 13 PARK LANE

Compelling storytelling that draws us ever deeper into the life of Marguerite Diblanc who commits a murder but had ‘no intention to kill’. Peppered with social history, we are whisked to rural Belgium, Paris during the Siege and the bustling streets of Soho… A page-turner, with a cast of characters, good and bad, who will remain with you long after you close the book.”
M. Colyer

An absorbing historical crime novel based on a real 19th-century murder. Naomi Clifford has done a fabulous job of bringing to life the central character, troubled, lonely, complicated Marguerite, and her settings – London and Paris of 1872 – are especially vivid. I The research is woven carefully into the plot, and the history never overpowers the plot. An excellently written story, a real page-turner.
Cass Green, author of In a Cottage in a Wood 

Gripping from the first page, beautifully written, this book weaves together fascinating historical detail with an intimate re-imagining of the life of a long-forgotten woman… Naomi Clifford has given this one woman, who led a life both obscure and notorious, a voice. It was a pleasure to be introduced to the dark and turbulent world she inhabited.
Helena Wright

There’s a distinct brilliance to Naomi Clifford’s ability to take a historical setting and fill it with tension, flawed characters, and the kind of dread that keeps you turning pages late into the night. 13 Park Lane is one of those rare books that doesn’t just tell a story—it immerses you in it.
You can’t help but love Marguerite, a woman who seems to have suffered all the sorrow the world could offer.”
Amazon review

This wonderful but dark novel manages to describe the relentless life of servants both in London and Paris in 1870, as well as that shocking siege, without allowing the reader to lose hope. The epoch is exquisitely woven in every sentence… This is so well-written I’m sure it will win prizes. Marguerite will live on for sure.”
Perdita – Amazon

I loved this book even though I don’t normally read this genre. I could almost hear horse hooves in the descriptions of every day life in Park Lane. The short chapter format and the way the in-depth research is woven so lightly into the story, peppering it with interest in and unfamiliar facts, without the story ever sounding like a history lesson, are all masterful.”
KB – Amazon

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