Heresy

Recently I read 'The Midwinter Martyr', a prequel novella in this series and I enjoyed it so much I decided to read the rest and hunted down this, which is Book 1. It’s 1583 and Giordano Bruno, having fled the Italian monastery where he’d spent so much of his life, in order to escape the Inquisition, has ended up in England. He hopes to trace a copy of a forbidden book, which he believes will be in Oxford. Sir Francis Walsingham knows of Bruno’s plan and asks him, while he’s there, to find out what he can about a suspected plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I. It’s quite a complicated story but really interesting to read. As Parris is an historian, she paints a really vivid picture of Elizabethan England, which was fascinating. I'm definitely going to continue reading this series.
Review by Mo, Oundle Crime