The Quality of Mercy - Hardcover

Kellerman, Faye

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557100276 ISBN 13: 9781557100276

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1989

Synopsis

In Elizabethan England, the Queen's court physician, a Spanish Jew posing as an Anglican, is smuggling Jews out of Spain while his daughter, Rebecca, is romanced by William Shakespeare

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

wling historical tale...Entertaining."
THE KIRKUS REVIEWS
Rebecca Lopez, the beautiful, fiery daughter of Roderigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's own physician, keeps many secrets. Not only are she and her family conversos, or secret Jews who must practice their religion in secret, but Rebecca craves adventure and walks about London in male dress. One day she actually crosses swords with a fledgling dramatist named Will Shakespeare. And the two embark on an adventure of passion and danger that shakes the very foundations of the Court--and nearly alters the course of history....

About the Author:

Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-seven novels, including twenty New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. She has also penned two bestselling short novels with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, and recently teamed up with her daughter Aliza to cowrite a young adult novel, Prism—the story of four teens in an alternate universe. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1557100276
• ISBN 13: 9781557100276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 607