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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I, Jack the dog, am so happy that you are back to read more of my adventures. This time I have a new best friend, Rebel, and he is a police dog! Woof! He licked my ...
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...
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