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London, 1594.
The opening night of โRomeo and Julietโ.
But it is not just the young lovers in the play who are star-crossed.
Mercutio is found murdered in the middle of the play - but it is real, not stage, blood that flows from his body.
Tom Musgrove, is hired by the theatre owners to solve the murder case as quickly and quietly as possible.
The theatre has only just reopened after two years of plagues, and they canโt afford a scandal on their doorstep.
As Tom plunges into the mean streets of Elizabethan London he soon realises he has jumped blindly into a web of murderous intrigue, which has already claimed the lives of Kit Marlowe and Francis Walsingham.
As the shattered remnants of Englandโs first Secret Service split into two lethally opposed camps, the blood begins to flow from the stinking sewers of Southwark to the gilded halls of Westminster.
Can Musgrove track down the murderer and solve the mystery?
Or will he end up being the one hunted to The Point of Death?
โThe Point of Deathโ is a thrilling Elizabethan murder mystery, full of intrigue and suspense.
Praise for Peter Tonkin:
โA welcome aura of old-fashioned expertiseโ - Publishers Weekly
โA good thriller, recommendedโ - Library Journal
โTonkin is a superb storyteller who creates big, brash, swashbuckling adventures with taut suspense, fast-paced action and tough, resourceful characters.โ Booklist
Peter Tonkin was born in Northern Ireland, and was raised in the UK, Holland, Germany, and the Persian Gulf. He has written thirty novels including โThe Coffin Shipโ.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
From Publishers Weekly
Life imitates art, and Shakespeare's new play looks like a snuff film in Peter Tonkin's The Point of Death, the first installment of an Elizabethan crime series starring the heroic Master of Defence, Tom Musgrave. The author of the popular Mariner series (Thunder Bay) places Tom in the center of a murder investigation Mercutio was fatally stabbed during the opening night of Romeo and Juliet and the war between the two factions of the country's first secret service, in a riveting tale full of fast action and period diction (bring a glossary for terms like culverin, riever and dag).
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About the Author
Tonkin is Head of English at the Wildernesse School, Sevenoaks.