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A note on content: This novel is set in Georgian England and depicts the period without softening it. It contains violence, sexual violence, and the casual brutality of a legal system that treated the poor as disposable.

THE HANGMAN'S TURN

The Lions Chamber — Book One

George Smith is the town's executioner — a pious man who has spent years telling himself the work is necessary. Justice must be served. The law must be upheld. Some ropes were never meant to be questioned.

 

Until another child is placed in his hands.

 

Driven by a conscience he can no longer silence, George begins pulling at threads that were never meant to be found — and uncovers a conspiracy buried in the shadows of Nottingham's most powerful institution: a private members' club whose lions have been sending the innocent to his rope for years.

 

Set against Luddite riots, Georgian corruption, and the flickering lamps of 1810 Nottingham, The Hangman's Turn is a story of justice, loyalty, and a man who knows exactly where the bodies are buried — because he put them there.

 

A good hangman never lets an innocent die.

Available in ebook, paperback, and hardback now.

The Lions Chamber is also in development as a six-season television series.

THE ROSE OF NOTTINGHAM

The Lions Chamber — Book Two

​​Rose has survived the workhouse. Now, approaching her sixteenth birthday, she wants only what she's been promised — a gentleman, a husband, a life beyond the walls that raised her. What she finds instead is a world of deceit, addiction, and cruelty. The workhouse was harsh. Upper-class Nottingham is merciless.

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​Survival was easier when she had nothing to lose.

Coming 2026

THE WITCH'S STEPS

The Lions Chamber — Book Three

​​Elsbeth lives on the fringes — a woman loved by some, feared by most, and whispered about by all. When she uncovers the atrocities the aristocracy has built on the backs of the vulnerable, she cannot look away. Guided by forces she doesn't fully understand, she risks everything — her life, her son, her soul — to end what Nottingham's powerful have begun.

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Some darkness can only be fought with darkness.

Coming 2026

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©2026 A E. Johnson | Queensbury Publications

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