John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator and brother of William Shakespeare, follows a trail of illicit passions and family secrets, as he attempts to uncover a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake, England's most famous sea warrior.
Martyr: an Elizabethan thriller
β Scribed by Rory Clements
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Tantor Media
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 265 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1400190665
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β¦ Synopsis
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Rory Clements's Revenger.
A young woman is found murdered, her body marked with profane symbols. Even more shocking, she's one of Queen Elizabeth's aristocratic cousins. Is there a connection between this tragedy and a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake--a plot that, if successful, could leave England defenseless in the face of a Spanish invasion?
Enter John Shakespeare, Tudor England's most remarkable investigator. With the Queen's brilliant reign in jeopardy, Shakespeare travels through London's seedy underworld of spies, sorcerers, prostitutes, and theater people, among whom is his own younger brother, the struggling playwright Will.
Shadowed by his relentless rival, the Queen's chief torturer, John Shakespeare must unmask the shocking identity of a killer before the woman he desires becomes the next martyr in a conspiracy almost too horrific to contemplate--a conspiracy whose consequences might...
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### Amazon.com Review **Book Description** In this ingenious debut, Rory Clements introduces John Shakespeare, Elizabethan Englandβs most remarkable investigator, and delivers a tale of murder and conspiracy that succeeds brilliantly as both historical fiction and a crime thriller. In a burnt-
In this ingenious debut, Rory Clements introduces John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator, and delivers a tale of murder and conspiracy that succeeds brilliantly as both historical fiction and a crime thriller. In a burnt-out house, one of Queen Elizabeth's aristocratic
SUMMARY: John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator and brother of William Shakespeare, follows a trail of illicit passions and family secrets, as he attempts to uncover a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake, England's most famous sea w