The Heresy of Dr Dee (Main) (The John Dee Papers #0)

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Synopsis
Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts - the second in an acclaimed historical series starring Dr John DeeAll talk is of the End-time... and the dead are rising.At the end of the sunless summer of 1560, black rumour 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.
Copyright:
2012

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781848872783
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
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Copyrighted By:
Phil Rickman, 2
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Horror, Romance, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Reading Age:
18 and up
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Bookshare Staff
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