The Heresy of Dr Dee (2) - Hardcover

Rickman, Phil

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ISBN 10: 1848872763 ISBN 13: 9781848872769

Publisher: Corvus, 2012

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At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumor shrouds the death of the one woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley and marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth. Did Dudley's wife, Amy, die from an accidental fall in a deserted house, or was it murder? Even Dr. John Dee, astrologer royal, adviser on the Hidden and one of Dudley's oldest friends, is uncertain. Then a rash promise to the Queen sends him to his family's old home on the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone, a crystal credited with supernatural properties. With Dee goes Robert Dudley, considered the most hated man in England. They travel with a London judge sent to try a sinister Welsh brigand with a legacy dating back to the Battle of Brynglas. After the battle, many of the English bodies were, according to legend, obscenely mutilated. Now, on the same haunted hill, another dead man has been found, similarly slashed. Devious politics, small-town corruption, twisted religion, and a brooding superstition leave John Dee isolated in the land of his father.

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About the Author:

Phil Rickman writes and presents the book program Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the author of The Bones of Avalon and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.

Review:

No-one writes better than Phil Rickman of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world * Bernard Cornwell * Brilliantly imagined and grippingly executed * The Times * This one is rather special... Rickman makes a wonderfully assured leap into the sixteenth century... compelling and historically convincing * Spectator * We don't praise our home-grown thriller writers enough, it's high time we praised Phil Rickman * Daily Mail *

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