Brilliantly written in language eerily reminiscent of Elizabethan English, this novel is set in 16th-century England and concerns a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I. When it was first published in 1992, the critics raved: "A talent for writing espionag...
By the author of Firedrake's Eye: a masterpiece of voice, historical detail, and psychological insight to rival Peter Ackroyd and A. S. Byatt
England in the mid-1580s faced an array of international foes and was torn internally by religious ...
Patricia Finney is the author of the critically acclaimed FIREDRAKE'S EYE and UNICORN'S BLOOD. Her newest novel is the last of the trilogy -- a masterpiece of voice, of historical detail and of psychological insight that rivals the best of Umberto Ec...
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Called in to solve an inconvenient murder before the whores riot, the lawyer James Enys must find a serial killer hiding among the cutpurses, lawyers, players, fugitive priests, pursuivants and whores of Elizabethan London. If he fails, he’ll be...
To do: Call in on Onion, check she has enough heroin...To do: Tues pm. Tescos: pizza bases, frosted Shreddies, Coke. Is football kit clean?!To do: Wed. Dress Mrs Golightly's ulcers, new patient, check Onion last thing, tkd.To do: REPORTS!She was a te...
Add more swashbuckling into your life!1592: Sir Robert Carey arrives in Carlisle in the Tudor Wild North, leaving London and Queen Elizabeth I's Court behind him. What will the hard men of the constantly raiding Anglo-Scottish Border make of the cour...
1592: Sir Robert Carey is finding life in the North more complicated and dangerous than he expected.Now somebody has stolen the entire shipment of hand-guns that Queen Elizabeth I sent to Carlisle, in a daring daylight raid. Who did it? Where are the...
1592: Sir Robert Carey has at last escaped from London, leaving Sergeant Dodd to follow him to Oxford – once he has finished taking his revenge on Vice Chamberlain Heneage.Carey is hoping to see the Queen when she makes her Ceremonial Entry to ...
1592: Lady Elizabeth Widdrington is living quietly at home, running Sir Henry's estates, when a young and pregnant friend of hers suddenly arrives on an exhausted pony, utterly distraught.Her husband – Minister Jamie Burn – has been murde...
1592/93 Sir Robert Carey has finally got his Warrant as Deputy Warden – and also a command from the Queen that he find out if there really is a conspiracy against the King of Scotland's life.The pursuivant, Simon Anricks arrives to help him dec...
1592: Sir Robert Carey is having to step carefully in London where he has just punched his father's powerful colleague, Vice Chamberlain Heneage, on the nose.Lawsuits are abounding, multiplying like locusts, and Dodd wants vengeance too.However there...
1592: Sir Robert Carey has been ordered south to London by his powerful and short-tempered father, Lord Hunsdon. He really doesn't want to go near the place, not least because, as well as an entanglement with a woman, the City is full of Carey's cred...
Add more swashbuckling to your life!1592: Sir Robert Carey arrives in Carlisle in the Tudor Wild North to take over as Deputy Warden of the West March of England. Unfortunately there is already a Deputy Warden called Sir Richard Lowther who has no in...
1593: Sir Robert Carey is tasked by the King of Scotland with finding and killing the young engineer calling himself Jonathan Hepburn. There have been two dangerous attempts on King James's life and Hepburn is at the back of both of them. Plus the tr...
1593: Sir Robert Carey has received a desperate message from Lady Elizabeth Widdrington - in the form of her hand-fasting ring. Carey doesn't know what is happening at Widdrington Castle - all he's sure of is that Elizabeth is in danger of her life.W...
James Enys is committing a crime just by practising as a lawyer - for a sixteenth century woman can't even appear as a witness in court. Unfortunately Enys is a woman, reluctantly pretending to be a man.She is starting to build her practice - until s...