Title: Traitor (A John Shakespeare Mystery)
Author: Rory Clements
Genre: Adult, Historical Mystery
Publication Date: November 5, 2013
Publisher: Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins
Synopsis
Award-winning historical crime series features William Shakespeare’s
older brother, John, as an Elizabethan ‘Intelligencer’ who is tasked
with taking down villains who threaten the Queen. The Elizabethan
navy has a secret weapon: an optical instrument so powerful it gives
England unassailable superiority at sea. Spain will stop at nothing
to steal it and seize the two men who understand its secrets – its
operative William Ivory, known as the ‘Queen’s Eye’, and its inventor,
the maverick magician Dr Dee. With a second Armada threatened, intelligencer
John Shakespeare is sent north to escort Dr Dee to safety. But his mission
is far from straightforward. Dee’s host, the Earl of Derby, cousin
to Elizabeth, is dying in agony, apparently poisoned. Who wants him
dead and why? What lies behind the lynching of the recusant priest Father
Matthew Lamb? And what exactly is the connection between these events
and the mysterious and beautiful Lady Eliska? While Shakespeare attempts
to untangle a plot that points to treachery at the very highest reaches
of government, he also faces serious accusations far closer to home.
With so much at stake, must he choose between family and his duty to
Queen and country? Moving from the Catholic heartlands of Lancashire
to a vagabond camp in the heart of England, and from the deck of Admiral
Frobisher’s flagship off the Brittany coast to the secret meetings
of Elizabeth’s closest associates, Traitor is award-winning writer
Rory Clements’ most intriguing and compelling novel to date.
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About the Author
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After a career in national newspapers, Rory Clements now lives in
a seventeenth-century farmhouse in Norfolk and writes full time.
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