'A captivating tale alive with the sights, sounds, and smells of a bygone age. Historical storytelling done right.' Steven Veerapen, author of the Simon Danforth Mysteries
'A rollicking tale of adventure, intrigue, deceit and danger, rich in period texture and with a wonderfully engaging protagonist at its heart. I was gripped from the first page to the last.' R.N. Morr…
Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supported the Protectorate are being hunted down as traitors.
From the author of the successful Thomas the Falconer mysteries comes a new historical series featuring Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck . . . 1600: a new century dawns. War with Spain has dra…
Discontent with King James’s reign is growing, with the country still fiercely divided between Protestant and Catholic. Rumours abound, and the intelligence service is stretched to its l…
THE SETTING The body of a bookseller is discovered, lying in a pool of blood in his Bristol bookshop. Police have one question: how did the man meet such a violent, murderous end in this peaceful place…
