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A masterful work that deserves a place on all public-library historical-fiction shelves, and that should be recommended to Phillipa Gregory fans.-- (11/01/2019) An evil bookseller and a terrifying brothel lie ahead; what's not to like? Gripping and fun. Excellent. This is historical mystery fiction at its finest.-- (10/21/2019) Hugely enjoyable. It's played straight, but never humourlessly so, and there's just enough 'proper' history amid the intrigue to keep purists on side. Parris's Giordano Bruno series has been a joy. Her Elizabethan England is loud, pungent, and blessedly free of some of the genre's more egregious cliches. She wears her research lightly: at home with the detail of the period, she is quite happy to engage in a little creative anachronism to bring the story home. There are echoes of C. J. Sansom's here. Her prose is taut and compelling. Her wielding of the historical material is always convincing but never overwhelming. Vivid characterizations, careful description, and lively dialogue.-- (11/06/2019)

Hugely enjoyable. It's played straight, but never humourlessly so, and there's just enough 'proper' history amid the intrigue to keep purists on side. An evil bookseller and a terrifying brothel lie ahead; what's not to like? Gripping and fun. Parris's Giordano Bruno series has been a joy. Her Elizabethan England is loud, pungent, and blessedly free of some of the genre's more egregious clich s. She wears her research lightly: at home with the detail of the period, she is quite happy to engage in a little creative anachronism to bring the story home. There are echoes of C. J. Sansom's here. Her prose is taut and compelling. Her wielding of the historical material is always convincing but never overwhelming.

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S. J. Parris is the pseudonym of Stephanie Merritt. Since graduating from Cambridge, she has worked as a critic for a variety of newspapers and magazines as well as for radio and television. She currently writes for the Guardian in London and is the author of five novels in the Giordano Bruno mystery series. Visit S. J. Parris at www.sjparris.com.

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