The Heresy of Dr Dee

John Dee Papers #3

Phil Rickman (Author)

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English

Corvus
28 September 2013

Fiction & Literature; Historical fiction

Series: The John Dee Papers

All 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.

By: Phil Rickman (Author)
Imprint: Corvus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9780857897701
ISBN 10: 0857897705
Series: The John Dee Papers
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 28 September 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Phil Rickman lives on the Welsh border where he writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf on BBC Radio Wales. He is the hugely popular author of The Bones of Avalon and the Merrily Watkins Mysteries.

Reviews for The Heresy of Dr Dee: John Dee Papers #3

He's done it again, with his usual sense of permeating atmosphere, with vivid characters in a complex plot that grows through the bones of history like a deadly nightshade. --Diana Gabaldon, author, Outlander , on The Bones of Avalon