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Ryan Ainsworth
@ryanainsworth
Historical Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
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About the writer
Ryan Ainsworth is a historical fiction writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
A finished page should still feel alive.
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Stories by Ryan Ainsworth
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The Last Ledger
In late Victorian Exeter, a clerk at a riverside shipping office discovers that a missing account book may be tied to a death long dismissed as an accident. As he follows the trail through warehouses, chapels and cramped back rooms, he finds that the city’s respectable surface hides a careful pattern of lies. The deeper he goes, the more the ledger seems less like a record of trade and more like a list of people someone meant to erase.
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