A Deadly Complot: Elizabethan spies conspire to defend the realm... (Tom Walsingham Mysteries)

Tom Walsingham returns in another deadly espionage adventure! For fans of Rory Clements, S J Parris, S W Perry and Andrew Taylor.

The shadow of treachery hangs over the realm…

England, 1586

Tom Walsingham has been tasked with keeping watch over the network of spies recruited by his spymaster cousin, Sir Francis Walsingham.

After intercepting a series of letters sent to and from Chartley Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots has been imprisoned, the spies have infiltrated a ring of Catholic plotters. Led by the zealous Anthony Babington, the conspirators plan to murder Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, thus restoring Catholicism to the realm.

With most of the plotters under careful observation, the spies have only to wait for the right moment to have them arrested. However, when one of Tom’s couriers — Isaac Finch — goes missing, it seems that Babington’s conspirators may suspect that they have informers in their midst.

Fearing that Finch may have been forced to reveal the spies’ plans, Tom vows to find out who killed him.

As he follows the sinister trail, Tom discovers that there is no shortage of people who may have wished Finch harm. And with the queen and the realm under threat, the pressure is on to solve the mystery before any more of Sir Francis’s recruits are lost…

Have Sir Francis’s spies been discovered? Is there a traitor in their midst?

And can Tom unravel the courier’s fate before Babington’s plotters act on their treasonous scheme…?

A DEADLY COMPLOT is a page-turning espionage adventure thriller set during the Elizabethan era in Tudor England. It is the fourth book in The Tom Walsingham Mysteries series.

THE TOM WALSINGHAM MYSTERY SERIES:
Book One: The Road to Murder
Book Two: A Treasonous Path
Book Three: Death In Rheims
Book Four: A Deadly Complot
Book Five: A Snare Of Deceit
Book Six: A Matter of Death
Book Seven: The Man From Morocco
Book Eight: Death At Home
Book Nine: Murder in Chains